• To: "Jeff Rafter" <jeffrafter@d...>,"Dennis Sosnoski" <dms@s...>
• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:58:33 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <1234642.1045878962142.JavaMail.jje@u...> <3E582AF9.70009@s...> <070501c2db4a$45a52970$22ecd90c@c1980223a>

> In GNU JAXP there is a pipeline interface called ValidationConsumer that
> handles DTD validation layered cleanly on top of SAX. So you can apply the
> best validator to the best parser (assuming you are talking the same
> language). Also, I believe RNG has a layered SAX validator. Maybe this
> wasn't the point... but it is layered. The fundamental checks for
> wellformedness however are not-- but SAX was designed for XML 1.0/1.1 there
> should be no surprise that wellformedness is a must for it.

I don't think complete validation is possible on top of SAX.
AFAIR, there are a few entity related validity constraints that
cannot be checked through SAX.

Karl

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