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// LexicalHandler.java - optional handler for lexical parse events.
// http://www.saxproject.org
// Public Domain: no warranty.
// $Id: LexicalHandler.java,v 1.5 2002/01/30 21:00:44 dbrownell Exp $
namespace Sax.Ext
{
/// <summary>
/// SAX2 extension handler for lexical events.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <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.
/// <para/>
/// 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.
/// <para/>
/// 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.
/// <para/>
/// To set the LexicalHandler for an XML reader, use the
/// <see cref="IXMLReader.SetProperty(string, object)"/> method
/// with the property name
/// <a href="http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler">http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler</a>
/// and an object implementing this interface (or null) as the value.
/// If the reader does not report lexical events, it will throw a
/// <see cref="SAXNotRecognizedException"/>
/// when you attempt to register the handler.
/// </remarks>
/// <since>SAX 2.0 (extensions 1.0)</since>
/// <author>David Megginson</author>
/// <version>2.0.1 (sax2r2)</version>
public interface ILexicalHandler
{
/// <summary>
/// Report the start of DTD declarations, if any.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// 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.
/// <para/>
/// All declarations reported through
/// <see cref="IDTDHandler"/> or
/// <see cref="Ext.IDeclHandler"/> events must appear
/// between the startDTD and <see cref="EndDTD()"/> events.
/// Declarations are assumed to belong to the internal DTD subset
/// unless they appear between <see cref="StartEntity(string)"/>
/// and <see cref="EndEntity(string)"/> events. Comments and
/// processing instructions from the DTD should also be reported
/// between the <see cref="StartDTD(string, string, string)"/> and <see cref="EndDTD()"/> events, in their original
/// order of(logical) occurrence; they are not required to
/// appear in their correct locations relative to <see cref="IDTDHandler"/>
/// or <see cref="IDeclHandler"/> events, however.
/// <para/>
/// Note that the start / endDTD events will appear within
/// the start / endDocument events from <see cref="IContentHandler"/> and
/// before the first <see cref="IContentHandler.StartElement(string, string, string, IAttributes)"/>
/// event.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="name">The document type name.</param>
/// <param name="publicId">The declared public identifier for the
/// external DTD subset, or null if none was declared.</param>
/// <param name="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.)</param>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
/// <see cref="EndDTD()"/>
/// <see cref="StartEntity(string)"/>
void StartDTD(string name, string publicId,
string systemId);
/// <summary>
/// Report the end of DTD declarations.
/// <para/>
/// 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.
/// </summary>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
/// <seealso cref="StartDTD(string, string, string)"/>
void EndDTD();
/// <summary>
/// Report the beginning of some internal and external XML entities.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// 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
/// <a href="http://xml.org/sax/features/lexical-handler/parameter-entities">http://xml.org/sax/features/lexical-handler/parameter-entities</a>
/// feature to query or control the reporting of parameter entities.
/// <para/>
/// 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]".
/// <para/>
/// 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
/// <see cref="IDeclHandler"/> or
/// <see cref="IDTDHandler"/> be properly ordered.
/// <para/>
/// Note that skipped entities will be reported through the
/// <see cref="IContentHandler.SkippedEntity(string)"/>
/// event, which is part of the ContentHandler interface.
/// <para/>Because of the streaming event model that SAX uses, some
/// entity boundaries cannot be reported under any
/// circumstances:
/// <list type="bullet">
/// <item><description>general entities within attribute values</description></item>
/// <item><description>parameter entities within declarations</description></item>
/// </list>
/// <para/>These will be silently expanded, with no indication of where
/// the original entity boundaries were.
/// <para/>Note also that the boundaries of character references (which
/// are not really entities anyway) are not reported.
/// <para/>All start/endEntity events must be properly nested.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="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]".</param>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
/// <seealso cref="EndEntity(string)"/>
/// <seealso cref="IDeclHandler.InternalEntityDecl(string, string)"/>
/// <seealso cref="IDeclHandler.ExternalEntityDecl(string, string, string)"/>
void StartEntity(string name);
/// <summary>
/// Report the end of an entity.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name">The name of the entity that is ending.</param>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
/// <seealso cref="StartEntity(string)"/>
void EndEntity(string name);
/// <summary>
/// Report the start of a CDATA section.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// The contents of the CDATA section will be reported through
/// the regular <see cref="IContentHandler.Characters(char[], int, int)"/>
/// event; this event is intended only to report
/// the boundary.
/// </remarks>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
/// <seealso cref="EndEntity(string)"/>
void StartCDATA();
/// <summary>
/// Report the end of a CDATA section.
/// </summary>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
/// <seealso cref="StartCDATA()"/>
void EndCDATA();
/// <summary>
/// Report an XML comment anywhere in the document.
/// <para/>
/// 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).
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ch">An array holding the characters in the comment.</param>
/// <param name="start">The starting position in the array.</param>
/// <param name="length">The number of characters to use from the array.</param>
/// <exception cref="SAXException">The application may raise an exception.</exception>
void Comment(char[] ch, int start, int length);
}
}