Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Eiffel XML parser 'parse_from_string' implementation

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:43:47PM +1000, Glenn Maughan wrote:
> >The idea is that the eiffel parser and the expat parser behave exactly >the 
> >
> >same
> >(except for bugs and unimplemented features). It is even possible to 
> >>switch from
> >one implmentation to the other at runtime. Namespace handling is done >in 
> >the
> >tree parser and thus is supported by both the eiffel and expat backend >if 
> >used
> >via the tree interface.
> >
> >Andreas
> 
> Great. I'll give it a try.
> 
> When using expat I had to manually register for certain events to be sent 
> using code like:
> 
>     -- register callback handlers
>     exml_register_XML_SetElementDeclHandler (item)
>     exml_register_XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler (item)
>     exml_register_XML_SetXmlDeclHandler (item)
>     exml_register_XML_SetEntityDeclHandler (item)
>     exml_register_XML_SetElementHandler (item)
>     exml_register_XML_SetCharacterDataHandler (item)
> 
> Do I still need to do something like this?

No, you don't. But please be aware that the Eiffel parser is really bare bones at the moment. For example DTD Declarations do _not_ work yet.

regards,
Andreas