Re: [xml] Regarding Internal & External Subset CallBacks During Sax Parsing

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:42:05AM +0530, Ashwin wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>        While  parsing using Sax callbacks, as soon as the Doctype Decl is
>    encountered we are bound to get an internal subset callback as well as
>    an  external  subset  callback  irrespective  of  the  fact whether an
>    internal subset is present or not.
>
>
>    From  what  I  have  understood  we should get only an internal subset
>    callback in the following case:-
>
>    <!Doctype rootelement [
>
>           <!ENITITY corpname "HTIPL">
>
>    ]>
>
>
>    Only an external subset call back in the following case:-
>
>    <!Doctype rootelement SYSTEM "elem-dtd.dtd">
>
>
>    And both external & internal subset callbacks in the following case:-
>
>    <!Doctype rootelement SYSTEM "elem-dtd.dtd" [
>
>           <!ENITITY corpname "HTIPL">
>
>    ]>
>
>
>    However  currently  we  get an internal subset callback followed by an
>    external subset callback in each of the three cases. Is this behaviour
>    correct?

  Well, SAX behaviour is not really well defined especially for C, this may
be a bit misleading I agree, but I'm not sure if it's worth fixing, and if
that would change anything if we did. I think it's kind of an historical
behaviour and changing it now won't bring much, no ?

Daniel

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