The problem is solved.
Thanks to all who contributed.
Paul
At 03:01 PM 6/20/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you're pushing SAX events to a
>ContentHandler, then you must be constructing the attributes, so can't you
>just create an attribute with the proper type? Then, any ContentHandler
>implementation that understands ID attributes will detect that the
>attribute is an ID and do the right thing.
>
>I don't know what implementation of the SAX Attributes class you are using,
>but in Xalan-C++, this would look something like this, assuming that my
>string literals are proper Unicode:
>
>void
>foo(ContentHandler* handler)
>{
> XalanAttributesImpl attrs;
>
> attrs.addAttribute("foo", "ID", "val");
>
> handler->startElement("", "foo", "foo", attrs);
> handler->endElement("", "foo", "foo");
>}
>
>Or am I misunderstanding what you're trying to do?
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>
>
> Paul
> Winder
>
> <pwinder@arbo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> rtext.com> cc:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], (bcc:
> David N Bertoni/CAM/Lotus)
> 06/20/2001 Subject: Re: Using the id()
> function with SAX input
> 01:35
> PM
>
> Please
>
> respond
> to
>
> xalan-dev
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>Sorry to pester you with this, but we have code freeze in a day or so and
>this is a must fix.
>
>Ideally I'd like to have a global solution, such as the attributeDecl()
>method I mentioned below.
>Failing that, there is an alternative that John Dreystadt and I discussed
>that combines David Bertoni's response and yours.
>
>Basically, after the startElement() method of the TransformerHandler is
>called, we would specify the ID attribute of the element just created:
>
> myTransformerHandler.startElement(theElement, itsAttributes);
> currentElement = (Element)<<?>>.getCurrentNode();
> <<?>>.SetIDAttribute(idString, currentElement);
>
>This seems clearcut. My problem is <<?>>: this is an StreeDomBuilder, but
>
>how do I derive this from the TransformerHandler?
>Also, will I have to change this when Stree goes away?
>
>As to the attributeDecl() concept, for that I need a SourceTreeHandler; how
>
>do I derive that from the TransformerHandler?
>It sure would be nice if the TransformerHandler, along with its many other
>hats, wore that of a Declhandler...
>
>Paul
>
>At 11:15 AM 6/20/01 -0400, Paul Winder wrote:
> >At 05:34 PM 6/19/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >>Xalan just looks at the incoming attributes and watches for those of type
> >>ID. A validating parser should set the right type if it has access to
>the
> >>DTD. If you are manufacturing input, just set the right type when you
> >>create the attribute. Xalan does very little -- nothing for you
>purposes,
> >>with the DTDHandler.
> >
> >How about the attributeDecl() method in the DeclHandler interface, which
> >is implemented by
> >SourceTreeHandler--would that do what I need?
> >
> >If so, what would I specify for the first argument, ename? Would I have
> >to call the function for each
> >element for which I wanted the attribute recognized as an ID attribute, or
>
> >is there a wildcard value?
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >>-scott
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Paul Winder
> >> <pwinder@arbo To:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> >> rtext.com> cc: (bcc: Scott
>Boag/CAM/Lotus)
> >> Subject: Using the id()
> >> function with SAX input
> >> 06/19/2001
> > >
> >> 04:10 PM
> >> Please
> > >
> >> respond to
> >> xalan-dev
> > >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>We are using Xalan 2.1.0 with SAX input from our SGML/XML editor. So
>far,
> >>it's working great, but I found a possible limitation today that worries
> >>me.
> >>
> >>In our editor we can apply links and link targets to an XML Docbook
> >>document, as <link> tags with href attributes and anchor tags with id
> >>attributes, respectively. We are processing the document using Norm
> >>Walsh's XSLDocbook10 (version 1.4) stylesheet. Norm uses the id()
>function
> >>
> >>to locate the target node for a link.
> >>
> >>The problem is that the id() function relies on an ID attribute
>designated
> >>in the DTD. Since we are using SAX input, Xalan does not have the DTD,
>and
> >>
> >>therefore does not have a designated ID attribute, so the id() function
> >>always comes up with no matches.
> >>
> >>Is there any other way to designate the ID attribute to Xalan aside from
> >>the DTD?
> >>
> >>Failing that, is there a way to give Xalan the DTD for the document when
> >>the input is through SAX? I looked at the LexicalHandler interface, and
> >>there is mention of sending the "external DTD subset" in a startEntity()
> >>event using the special name "[dtd]", but it isn't clear to me if this
> >>would do what I need or how to do it.
> >>
> >>Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >>Paul Winder
> >>Arbortext
> >
