Brett McLaughlin wrote:
> Anyone got a realistic example of using either of the SAX-defined properties
> (xml-string and dom-node)? I can't see the point of those, mostly because as
> I look around, I never have to use them. Any help would be appreciated.

We never really implemented xml-string because the behavior
isn't defined. And if we assume that it's all of the original
characters, then we would have to buffer parts of the document 
stream (concatenating buffers, etc) even if noone ever asks
for that property.

As for dom-node: that property is for when someone wants to
write a DOM tree traverser and make it appear as a SAX
parser. So as the parser is calling the handler methods,
the handlers can ask for the node that produced that
callback. In short, it's just a DOM tree iterator.

-- 
Andy Clark * IBM, TRL - Japan * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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