Re: [Sax-devel] Should I use sax?

[Michael G. <mrg...@ca...>]

Roberto Cosenza <li...@ro...> wrote on 05/22/2006 11:20:26 AM:

> Hi David. Thank you for your clarification.
> It is clear, SAX is the way to go for me.
> I confirm that sax is reading the doctype and doing the validation
> accordingly. It was missleading that the XMLSerializer was outputting
> the "Strict" doctype unregarding of the input one.

If you're writing new code, I would avoid using Xerces' native 
serializers. They are non-standard, not particularly well maintained and 
likely to be deprecated [1] soon (perhaps in the next release). JAXP's 
TransformerHandler [2] is a much better choice for serializing SAX events.

> I have one more question:
> Parsing a document which contains the fragment
> <a href="mylink.html" >mylink</a>, generates events also for the
> a-attribute 'shape="rect"', which is not given in input!!
> Is there any way to turn this behavior off? It seems like the parser is
> inserting some implicit attributes here and there...
> /Roberto

[1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-6
[2] 
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/javax/xml/transform/sax/TransformerHandler.html

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrg...@ca...
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