[XML-SIG] xmlproc, Lexical handler and CDATA

Lars Marius Garshol larsga@garshol.priv.no
17 Dec 2001 16:16:58 +0100


(Sorry about the late response. I've been two weeks in Florida, in
connection with XML 2001.)

* Sylvain Thenault
| 
| here is a patch which fix the bug in xmlproc with the
| lexical_handler enabled.

Actually, it's not a bug, it's a missing feature, and one that was
left out on purpose.
 
| It just call startCDATA and endCDATA on the lexical handler before
| and after calling characters on the content handlers.
| 
| I can commit this but I would like to have Lars opinion

I'm not very keen on this, to be honest. It slows xmlproc down, and
the only thing we achieve by doing so is to provide people with
information for which they hardly ever have any appropriate use
anyway.

If the consensus is that we should have this I can apply the patch,
but personally I think we're better off without this "feature".

(BTW, I don't think there's anything wrong with your code, Sylvain,
it's just that I don't think this will do anyone much good.)

--Lars M.