• To: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>
• Subject: Re: SAX/Java Proposed Changes
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 15:21:46 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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At 11:45 AM -0800 3/7/04, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:

>As for filters and handlers, they should always initialize their 
>state on startDocument(). That will prevent any errors due to reuse 
>after attempting to parse a bad document.

In practice, not all parsers invoke startDocument before reporting a 
fatalError. Currently it is not safe to assume either startDocument 
or endDocument will be called. :-( At least one of these should be 
absolutely guaranteed.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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