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 07:51:25AM -0800, Mark S Petrovic wrote:
> > Good day.
> >
> > Does libxml2 expose an API for performing basic parsing of a DTD -
> > specifically providing the ability to sense when an attribute declaration
> > appears in the input stream?  I am looking for the DTD-equivalent of
> > SAX-based parsing of an XML stream.  My goal is to assemble the logical
>
>   What about looking at it before asking ? Just laziness ?
>
> include/libxml/parser.h

Thank you for the pointer.

> /**
>  * attributeDeclSAXFunc:
>  * @ctx:  the user data (XML parser context)
>  * @elem:  the name of the element
>  * @fullname:  the attribute name
>  * @type:  the attribute type
>  * @def:  the type of default value
>  * @defaultValue: the attribute default value
>  * @tree:  the tree of enumerated value set
>  *
>  * An attribute definition has been parsed.
>  */
> typedef void (*attributeDeclSAXFunc)(void *ctx,
>                                 const xmlChar *elem,
>                                 const xmlChar *fullname,
>                                 int type,
>                                 int def,
>                                 const xmlChar *defaultValue,
>                                 xmlEnumerationPtr tree);
>
> struct _xmlSAXHandler {
>  ...
>  attributeDeclSAXFunc attributeDecl;
>  ...
>  };
>
> > where the attributeName_i are ordered in the order in which they are
> > declared in the DTD.
>
>   I already said it made no sense to try to build an order.

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.

Mark


> Daniel
>
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