Re: Lack of configuration support in SAX interface

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Rob Richards wrote: > Jirka Kosek wrote: > > > is there a way how to configure SAX parser (xml_parser_create) similarly as > > DOM or SimpleXML? I mean specifying constants like LIBXML_NOENT, > > LIBXML_DTDLOAD, LIBXML_DTDATTR etc. to control parser behaviour. > > > > It seems that default behaviour of SAX parser is quite non-conforming to XML > > spec, it even doesn't expand references to internal entities. > > Based on the extensions mentioned I assume this is under PHP 5.x and libxml is > being used for the xml extension. It was designed for compatibility with the > one under PHP 4 that used expat so behavior in 5 was based on behavior from 4. > For example, expanding entity refs requires that no default handler is > defined. In the event its an internal pre-defined entity, they only are not > expanded when no character data handler is present. > > So to answer your initial question, no, there is not a way to currently do > this while also keeping compatibility between libxml2 and expat. > For this type of control you might want to look at xmlreader (though uses its > own constants to control behavior and is not event based). I'd say we drop expat compatibility in PHP 6.0 so that we can do things correctly... Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org