Re: [xml] SAX-like parsing of DTDs

[Mark S Petrovic <petrovic corp earthlink net>]

On 27Feb, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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.

This is useful, and thank you.  Eventually the student sees.

Mark

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