SAX: Short tag's ...

[Thomas Lehmann]

Hi!

Is there a way to recognize short tags in a XML?
I'm implementing a SAX handler...

Problem: storing the XML code I would need this information
in the startElement ...

How can I handle this?

<element id="abc" />
<element id="xyz" >any text</element>

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi!

Is there a way to recognize short tags in a XML?
I'm implementing a SAX handler...

Problem: storing the XML code I would need this information
in the startElement ...

How can I handle this?

<element id="abc" />
<element id="xyz" >any text</element>

I don't think there is a (standard) way, and it shouldn't matter (unless you
are actually talking about HTML, where sadly enough it does).

In XML, <foo></foo> is the exact same thing as <foo/>.

Or do you need to *write* XML with shortened tags?

Diez

 

[David Smith]

Hi!

Is there a way to recognize short tags in a XML?
I'm implementing a SAX handler...

Problem: storing the XML code I would need this information
in the startElement ...

How can I handle this?

<element id="abc" />
<element id="xyz" >any text</element>

So ... are you writing as you read? If so, I'm not sure you can know
which form to write out immediately. Best bet would be to delay write
until the next SAX event. The next SAX event will tell if the element
should be written as <element /> or <element>.

--David