RE: [xml] Making SAX more useful...

["Sze, Tak F" <tak f sze intel com>]

One approach is to switch the behavior depending on
a xmlSubstituteEntity flag is turned on/off. Kind of
similar to xmlDoValidityCheckingDefaultValue flag.

- Tak Sze

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 7:09 AM
> To: Matt Sergeant
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Making SAX more useful...
>
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:19:26PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > At the moment the SAX parser really has second place to the 
> DOM parser (at
> > least that's my gut feeling), because you have to do so 
> much work to make
> > it useful (I've just discovered that it doesn't do entity 
> resolution for
> > you - which is the opposite of all other SAX 
> implementations I've used).
>
>   Well, problem is that I build DOM on top of this expat/SAX and it
> would be more difficult to handle this if entities are 
> substitued before
> the callbacks
>
> > Is there a plan to make it a more "first class" interface? 
> At the moment
> > it's requires a fair amount of custom code to implement 
> parsing reasonably
> > complex documents.
>
>   Well it's not really a priority right now. there is also the
> point that I don't want to break the API, and this will 
> probably requires
> an API redesign.
>
> Daniel
>
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