Re: [xml] Refactoring of the SAX interface for namespace support.

[Graham Bennett <graham-libxml simulcra org>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:17:16PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:19:46PM +0100, Graham Bennett wrote:
> > I like the idea of exposing more of the parser's data this way.  The
> > only thing that I don't like is that there doesn't seem to be any clear
> > separation between the end of the information for the start of the
> > element and the start of the content.
> >
> > So if I get the following sequence of events:
> >
> > startElementNS
> > namespace
> > namespace
> > attributeNS
> > attributeNS
> > -----------------
> > startElementNS
> > endElementNS
> > -----------------
> > endElementNS
> >
> > Then I only know that I have all the information for the start of the
> > element once I get the next element callback.  The callback that tells
> > me this could equally well be a comment, text or processing instruction,
> > or am I missing something?
>
>   Yup that's right, but following the exchange with Dave Beckett
> we need to provide the namespaces as part of the startElementNS
> callback. I simply suggest to also add the number of attributes
> to come:

Yep that sounds fine.  That will also enable code to reserve the correct
amount of space for the attributes beforehand.

cheers,

-- 
Graham Bennett