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| author | Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org> | 2003-02-01 02:10:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org> | 2003-02-01 02:10:07 +0000 |
| commit | a286d8e992bbc0a6180638df2bfb55e433642b78 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/external/jaxp/source/org/xml/sax/ext/package.html b/external/jaxp/source/org/xml/sax/ext/package.html new file mode 100755 index 000000000..d506f270d --- /dev/null +++ b/external/jaxp/source/org/xml/sax/ext/package.html @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +<HTML><HEAD> +<!-- $Id: package.html,v 1.1 2003-02-01 02:10:44 cbj Exp $ --> +</HEAD><BODY> + +<p> +This package contains interfaces to SAX2 facilities that +conformant SAX drivers won't necessarily support. + +<p>See <a href='http://www.saxproject.org'>http://www.saxproject.org</a> +for more information about SAX.</p> + +<p> This package is independent of the SAX2 core, though the functionality +exposed generally needs to be implemented within a parser core. +That independence has several consequences:</p> + +<ul> + +<li>SAX2 drivers are <em>not</em> required to recognize these handlers. +</li> + +<li>You cannot assume that the class files will be present in every SAX2 +installation.</li> + +<li>This package may be updated independently of SAX2 (i.e. new +handlers and classes may be added without updating SAX2 itself).</li> + +<li>The new handlers are not implemented by the SAX2 +<code>org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler</code> or +<code>org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilterImpl</code> classes. +You can subclass these if you need such behavior, or +use the helper classes found here.</li> + +<li>The handlers need to be registered differently than core SAX2 +handlers.</li> + +</ul> + +<p>This package, SAX2-ext, is a standardized extension to SAX2. It is +designed both to allow SAX parsers to pass certain types of information +to applications, and to serve as a simple model for other SAX2 parser +extension packages. Not all such extension packages should need to +be recognized directly by parsers, however. +As an example, most validation systems can be cleanly layered on top +of parsers supporting the standardized SAX2 interfaces. </p> + +</BODY></HTML> |