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> >The alternative is to return to what I had originally done with >Ælfred, and generate a separate event for each attribute: > > public void attribute (String elementName, String aname, String value); > Separate attribute events raises a question. Unlike SGML, XML does not specify that the order in which attribute values are supplied in a start-tag is insignificant to applications. (Perhaps I missed something it in the spec.?). A processor working sans DTD obviously cannot determine a declaration order in which to generate the events. Annex G of the SGML handbook just says the order is insignificant. However, nsgmls ESIS supplies then in declaration order and I for one have written apps that relied on that. Perhaps writing apps that rely on a specific order of attribute event arrival is just plain bad design! Anyway, the dictionary approach, supplying all the attributes in one go side-steps buffering and state space for simple little SAX apps. that want to pick up attributes X and Y of element Z and nothing else. While on this subject, what comes first, a start-tag event or its attribute event(s)? Sean Mc Grath sean at digitome dot com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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