Re: [xml] SAX-like parsing of DTDs

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Mark S Petrovic wrote:
> Yes, I remember well, and respect that fact.  However, I am forced
> to deal with an existing infrastructure that demands I know the order.
> You may argue that this is not, then, XML according to the spirit of XML.
> I will not contest - nor can I reasonably hope to change my condition.

  The problem is the way ATTLIST will be processed may not match
your expectations. You will get the callbacks in the order they get
processed in the DTD which may not match the order found in a single
external parsed entity. If you have

<!ATTLIST ...

&ext;

<!ATTLIST ...

 and that ext contains declarations then they will be intermixed.
Also some of the <!ATTLIST ... found may not be reported if they
are in IGNORE'd conditional sections.

Daniel

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