From: TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Date: 2002-02-08T02:57:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + XML Proposal

Hello,

Sorry to late response, but it's very interesting proposal.

Bryan Murphy <bryan@terralab.com> wrote:
> Also, do we need to standardize on the ErrorHandler interface as well, or can we 
> simply rely on exceptions?   (Personally I'd choose exceptions).

If you'd like to output warning without stopping parsing,
you should support error handler.


> The differences between this model and the SAX2 model are:  
> 
> 1. I've removed the startPrefixMapping and endPrefixMapping events, and moved 
> namespace declarations back into the attributes where they are in the XML 
> document.

(snip)

> 2. Attributes are a hash, and not an object (though this is, like everything else, 
> open for discussion).  I'm of the opinion that if you need to worry about attribute 
> namespaces, you should check the attribute names explicitly using regexps.

Hmm. But we maybe need a namespace manager class (like
NamespaceSupport in SAX2) to handle/resolve namespace things.
Moreover, if we use namespace manager object,
startPrefixMapping/endPrefixMapping is useful.


By the way, do you think about entity referene, CDATA, DTD and
Doctype?  Should we support them? If so, how?


Regards,

TAKAHASHI 'Maki' Masayoshi     E-mail: maki@rubycolor.org