[Expat-discuss] CharacterDataHandler -- why no element name?

[Greg Martin]

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> Behalf Of William Park
> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:38 AM
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> Subject: [Expat-discuss] CharacterDataHandler -- why no element name?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> After reading the documentation of Expat-1.95.8, I am 
> wondering why the
> callback function for text data, as in
> 
>     void XMLCALL texthandler (userData, s, len)
> 	void *userData;
> 	char *s;
> 	int len;
>     { ... }
> 
>     XML_SetCharacterDataHandler(p, texthandler)
> 
> doesn't get element name as argument.  Without it, I don't know which
> element this text belongs to, and have to keep track of previous
> elements which were opened/closed.  Shouldn't the parser be the one
> keeping track?
> 

It's not required. The document gets parsed sequentially so the element being 
parsed is the last one passed to the start element handler.