[Sax-devel] Re: RFE #434478 (SAX2 and resolving system IDs)

[David B. <da...@pa...>]

I was actually just repeating the current SAX convention, which
show up in startEntity(), endEntity(), and skippedEntity().

Changing that convention would be a very invasive proposal!
So to clarify:

> <!ENTITY general SYSTEM "foo"> ==> 'general'
> <!ENTITY % parameter SYSTEM "foo"> ==> '%parameter'

That's the current convention.

> <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "foo"> ==> '#book'

The current convention in that case uses "[dtd]".

> While one could use [book], I prefer #book, since # is 
> SGML's "reserved name indicator" (RNI) character and 
> it only requires tossing the first character, but
> anything that allows one to infer it's a doctype name
> is fine with me.

The root element name is separately reported.  In that
text, LexicalHandler.startDTD("book", null, "foo") would
be passed, assuming that new flag is set to false.

- Dave