Full Disclosure: What The XML Processor Must Tell The XML Application

Avi Rappoport (david@megginson.com)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:55:45 -0500 (EST)

John Cowan writes:

> 10. An XML processor (necessarily a non-validating one) that does
> not include the replacement text of an external parsed entity
> in place of an entity reference must notify the application that
> it recognized but did not read the entity (4.4.3) [SAX does not
> provide for this]

SAX offloads this responsibility to the application using the
EntityResolver interface.

All the best,

David

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