Andy Clark wrote: > Aleksander Slominski wrote: > > however it gives offset into logical absolute offset (in characters) in current > > XML entity. having XMLLocator.getCurrentEntityAbsoluteOffset() allows > > me to report start and end tag positions in input XML and is necessary > > But what good does this do for application writers? The offset > information could be reported but is meaningless in the general > case.
for extracting a fragment of xml and passing it to other processing it is very useful and generally for process and forward XML types of applications that instead of reconstructing XML can pass through slightly modified original XML (for example removing or adding one header in SOAP leaving other XML intact). to do this preserving original encoding is not required... > > for me to have Xerces 2 to pass tests and be fully used in my XPP2 (see > > http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/soap/xpp) > > What tests are you talking about? my XPP2 API.is implemented by either default simple driver or one based on Xerces2 pull parsing - if download XPP2 you can run JUnit tests checking XPP2 API. thanks, alek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
