Re: [xml] sax and entities

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:11:09AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 08:48:02AM +0200, Petr Pajas wrote:
> > > SAX.startElement(a)
> > > SAX.getEntity(b)
> > > SAX.characters(B, 1)
> > > SAX.characters(B, 1)  <--- why?
>
>   One when parsing the entity to make sure it's well formed the first time
> you use the entity.
>   One each time the entity must be delivered to user land.

 One important point is to ask the parser to do entity substitution
if you provide your own SAX routines so it does as much of the work as
possible.

Daniel

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