Re: XML Catalogs Working Draft 12 Jun 2001

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> was heard to say:
| > We originally had a PI for this, but that has its own set of problems.
| > Specifically, you have to have started parsing before you see it, so
| > if you need it to find the doctype, you're hosed.
| 
|   Well the PI would have to be placed before the DOCTYPE, and rule to
| ignore it if it is located after sounds a simple way to avoid the tortuous
| case where there is one after the DOCTYPE.

Yeah, but how can you tell? There's no obvious way in, for example the
SAX API, to tell when you've "passed" the doctype declaration. Or have
I missed something fundamental about SAX? (Not that support within SAX
as it is currently defined is a requirement.)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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