Re: scheme DTD parser

["Peter C. Norton" <spacey at lenin dot nu>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:42:40AM +0200, Thierry Bezecourt wrote:
> "Peter C. Norton" <spacey@lenin.nu> writes:
> 
> > What parsers did you try?  The expat interface should do this
> > reliably.
> 
> How?  The DTD parsing in expat is minimal: it expands the entity
> declarations, but does not call specific handlers on element
> declarations.  It would be possible, but not very easy, by using the
> default handler, i.e by doing much of the parsing yourself
> (XML::Parser does that).

OK, point, but it should not be incapable of working.  I guess my questions
should have been: "What did you expect" and "What did it do instead".

> Furthermore, my interface to expat (Mixp) does not parse the DTD at
> all, because that feature was not available in the standard version of
> expat when I wrote Mixp, and I forgot to integrate it later.  I'm
> trying to fix that now.

Huh?  Oh, I guess I've been using the python interface with the book I
bought.  I'll shut up now.

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