Re: [xml] external entity references using SAX interface

[Vassili Dzuba <vassilidzuba nerim net>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:56:16 -0500
Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:58:00PM +0100, Vassili Dzuba wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem when trying to write an application 
> > using the SAX interface when processing a reference
> > to an external entity reference.
>
>   Yes, libxml SAX interface + entities is a real real pain.
> Sorry there is no easy way, serious assembly required !
> It's possible, the DOM build is done on top of SAX, but
> I promise you won't like it. Read re-read the SAX.c module
> as well as the entity.c one...
>
> Daniel
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Well , the dom interface might be build on top of sax,
but there are a few special cases in parser.c related to the
dom tree generation, so that i'm not sure that the dom tree generator
can be build from a pure sax interface, and i would prefer not
to have to patch libxml2

i know that the libxml documentation explicitely counsel to use
the dom interfce if one has to use entities, but i don't see any
philosophical reason why a sax interface should be so 
entity-unfriendly...


Anyway, l'll have a deeper look at the source...

Vassili Dzuba