org.apache.xerces.impl

Interface XMLEntityHandler

public interface XMLEntityHandler

The entity handler interface defines methods to report information about the start and end of entities.

Version: $Id: XMLEntityHandler.java,v 1.10 2004/10/04 21:45:48 mrglavas Exp $

Author: Andy Clark, IBM

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Method Summary
voidendEntity(String name, Augmentations augs)
This method notifies the end of an entity.
voidstartEntity(String name, XMLResourceIdentifier identifier, String encoding, Augmentations augs)
This method notifies of the start of an entity.

Method Detail

endEntity

public void endEntity(String name, Augmentations augs)
This method notifies the end of an entity. The DTD has the pseudo-name of "[dtd]" parameter entity names start with '%'; and general entities are just specified by their name.

Parameters: name The name of the entity. augs Additional information that may include infoset augmentations

Throws: XNIException Thrown by handler to signal an error.

startEntity

public void startEntity(String name, XMLResourceIdentifier identifier, String encoding, Augmentations augs)
This method notifies of the start of an entity. The DTD has the pseudo-name of "[dtd]" parameter entity names start with '%'; and general entities are just specified by their name.

Parameters: name The name of the entity. identifier The resource identifier. encoding The auto-detected IANA encoding name of the entity stream. This value will be null in those situations where the entity encoding is not auto-detected (e.g. internal entities or a document entity that is parsed from a java.io.Reader). augs Additional information that may include infoset augmentations

Throws: XNIException Thrown by handler to signal an error.

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