- // LexicalHandler.java - optional handler for lexical parse events.
- // http://www.saxproject.org
- // Public Domain: no warranty.
- // $Id: LexicalHandler.java,v 1.1.24.1 2004/05/01 08:34:43 jsuttor Exp $
-
- package org.xml.sax.ext;
-
- import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-
- /**
- * SAX2 extension handler for lexical events.
- *
- * <blockquote>
- * <em>This module, both source code and documentation, is in the
- * Public Domain, and comes with <strong>NO WARRANTY</strong>.</em>
- * See <a href='http://www.saxproject.org'>http://www.saxproject.org</a>
- * for further information.
- * </blockquote>
- *
- * <p>This is an optional extension handler for SAX2 to provide
- * lexical information about an XML document, such as comments
- * and CDATA section boundaries.
- * XML readers are not required to recognize this handler, and it
- * is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions.</p>
- *
- * <p>The events in the lexical handler apply to the entire document,
- * not just to the document element, and all lexical handler events
- * must appear between the content handler's startDocument and
- * endDocument events.</p>
- *
- * <p>To set the LexicalHandler for an XML reader, use the
- * {@link org.xml.sax.XMLReader#setProperty setProperty} method
- * with the property name
- * <code>http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler</code>
- * and an object implementing this interface (or null) as the value.
- * If the reader does not report lexical events, it will throw a
- * {@link org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException SAXNotRecognizedException}
- * when you attempt to register the handler.</p>
- *
- * @since SAX 2.0 (extensions 1.0)
- * @author David Megginson
- * @version 2.0.1 (sax2r2)
- */
- public interface LexicalHandler
- {
-
- /**
- * Report the start of DTD declarations, if any.
- *
- * <p>This method is intended to report the beginning of the
- * DOCTYPE declaration; if the document has no DOCTYPE declaration,
- * this method will not be invoked.</p>
- *
- * <p>All declarations reported through
- * {@link org.xml.sax.DTDHandler DTDHandler} or
- * {@link org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler DeclHandler} events must appear
- * between the startDTD and {@link #endDTD endDTD} events.
- * Declarations are assumed to belong to the internal DTD subset
- * unless they appear between {@link #startEntity startEntity}
- * and {@link #endEntity endEntity} events. Comments and
- * processing instructions from the DTD should also be reported
- * between the startDTD and endDTD events, in their original
- * order of (logical) occurrence; they are not required to
- * appear in their correct locations relative to DTDHandler
- * or DeclHandler events, however.</p>
- *
- * <p>Note that the start/endDTD events will appear within
- * the start/endDocument events from ContentHandler and
- * before the first
- * {@link org.xml.sax.ContentHandler#startElement startElement}
- * event.</p>
- *
- * @param name The document type name.
- * @param publicId The declared public identifier for the
- * external DTD subset, or null if none was declared.
- * @param systemId The declared system identifier for the
- * external DTD subset, or null if none was declared.
- * (Note that this is not resolved against the document
- * base URI.)
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an
- * exception.
- * @see #endDTD
- * @see #startEntity
- */
- public abstract void startDTD (String name, String publicId,
- String systemId)
- throws SAXException;
-
-
- /**
- * Report the end of DTD declarations.
- *
- * <p>This method is intended to report the end of the
- * DOCTYPE declaration; if the document has no DOCTYPE declaration,
- * this method will not be invoked.</p>
- *
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an exception.
- * @see #startDTD
- */
- public abstract void endDTD ()
- throws SAXException;
-
-
- /**
- * Report the beginning of some internal and external XML entities.
- *
- * <p>The reporting of parameter entities (including
- * the external DTD subset) is optional, and SAX2 drivers that
- * report LexicalHandler events may not implement it; you can use the
- * <code
- * >http://xml.org/sax/features/lexical-handler/parameter-entities</code>
- * feature to query or control the reporting of parameter entities.</p>
- *
- * <p>General entities are reported with their regular names,
- * parameter entities have '%' prepended to their names, and
- * the external DTD subset has the pseudo-entity name "[dtd]".</p>
- *
- * <p>When a SAX2 driver is providing these events, all other
- * events must be properly nested within start/end entity
- * events. There is no additional requirement that events from
- * {@link org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler DeclHandler} or
- * {@link org.xml.sax.DTDHandler DTDHandler} be properly ordered.</p>
- *
- * <p>Note that skipped entities will be reported through the
- * {@link org.xml.sax.ContentHandler#skippedEntity skippedEntity}
- * event, which is part of the ContentHandler interface.</p>
- *
- * <p>Because of the streaming event model that SAX uses, some
- * entity boundaries cannot be reported under any
- * circumstances:</p>
- *
- * <ul>
- * <li>general entities within attribute values</li>
- * <li>parameter entities within declarations</li>
- * </ul>
- *
- * <p>These will be silently expanded, with no indication of where
- * the original entity boundaries were.</p>
- *
- * <p>Note also that the boundaries of character references (which
- * are not really entities anyway) are not reported.</p>
- *
- * <p>All start/endEntity events must be properly nested.
- *
- * @param name The name of the entity. If it is a parameter
- * entity, the name will begin with '%', and if it is the
- * external DTD subset, it will be "[dtd]".
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an exception.
- * @see #endEntity
- * @see org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler#internalEntityDecl
- * @see org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler#externalEntityDecl
- */
- public abstract void startEntity (String name)
- throws SAXException;
-
-
- /**
- * Report the end of an entity.
- *
- * @param name The name of the entity that is ending.
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an exception.
- * @see #startEntity
- */
- public abstract void endEntity (String name)
- throws SAXException;
-
-
- /**
- * Report the start of a CDATA section.
- *
- * <p>The contents of the CDATA section will be reported through
- * the regular {@link org.xml.sax.ContentHandler#characters
- * characters} event; this event is intended only to report
- * the boundary.</p>
- *
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an exception.
- * @see #endCDATA
- */
- public abstract void startCDATA ()
- throws SAXException;
-
-
- /**
- * Report the end of a CDATA section.
- *
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an exception.
- * @see #startCDATA
- */
- public abstract void endCDATA ()
- throws SAXException;
-
-
- /**
- * Report an XML comment anywhere in the document.
- *
- * <p>This callback will be used for comments inside or outside the
- * document element, including comments in the external DTD
- * subset (if read). Comments in the DTD must be properly
- * nested inside start/endDTD and start/endEntity events (if
- * used).</p>
- *
- * @param ch An array holding the characters in the comment.
- * @param start The starting position in the array.
- * @param length The number of characters to use from the array.
- * @exception SAXException The application may raise an exception.
- */
- public abstract void comment (char ch[], int start, int length)
- throws SAXException;
-
- }
-
- // end of LexicalHandler.java