gecko-dev/parser/xml/public/nsISAXLexicalHandler.idl
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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsISupports.idl"
/**
* SAX2 extension handler for lexical events.
*
* This is an extension handler for SAX2 to provide lexical
* information about an XML document, such as comments and CDATA
* section boundaries.
*
* 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.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(23c26a56-adff-440c-8caf-95c2dc2e399b)]
interface nsISAXLexicalHandler : nsISupports {
/**
* Report an XML comment anywhere in the document.
*
* 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).
*
* @param chars The characters in the comment.
*/
void comment(in AString chars);
/**
* Report the start of DTD declarations, if any.
*
* 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.
*
* All declarations reported through DTDHandler or DeclHandler
* events must appear between the startDTD and endDTD events.
* Declarations are assumed to belong to the internal DTD subset
* unless they appear between startEntity and 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.
*
* Note that the start/endDTD events will appear within the
* start/endDocument events from ContentHandler and before the first
* startElement event.
*
* @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.)
*/
void startDTD(in AString name, in AString publicId, in AString systemId);
/**
* Report the end of DTD declarations.
*
* 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.
*/
void endDTD();
/**
* Report the start of a CDATA section.
*
* The contents of the CDATA section will be reported through the
* regular characters event; this event is intended only to report
* the boundary.
*/
void startCDATA();
/**
* Report the end of a CDATA section.
*/
void endCDATA();
/**
* Report the beginning of some internal and external XML entities.
*
* Because of the streaming event model that SAX uses, some
* entity boundaries cannot be reported under any circumstances:
*
* 1.) general entities within attribute values
* 2.) parameter entities within declarations
*
* These will be silently expanded, with no indication of where
* the original entity boundaries were.
*
* Note also that the boundaries of character references (which
* are not really entities anyway) are not reported.
*
* 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]".
*/
void startEntity(in AString name);
/**
* Report the end of an entity.
*
* @param name The name of the entity that is ending.
*/
void endEntity(in AString name);
};