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13.10 <tt class="module">xml.sax.handler</tt> --
Base classes for SAX handlers</A>
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<P>
<P>
<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.0.</span>
<P>
The SAX API defines four kinds of handlers: content handlers, DTD
handlers, error handlers, and entity resolvers. Applications normally
only need to implement those interfaces whose events they are
interested in; they can implement the interfaces in a single object or
in multiple objects. Handler implementations should inherit from the
base classes provided in the module <tt class="module">xml.sax</tt>, so that all
methods get default implementations.
<P>
<dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <a name="l2h-3316"><tt class="class">ContentHandler</tt></a></b>
<dd>
This is the main callback interface in SAX, and the one most
important to applications. The order of events in this interface
mirrors the order of the information in the document.
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <a name="l2h-3317"><tt class="class">DTDHandler</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Handle DTD events.
<P>
This interface specifies only those DTD events required for basic
parsing (unparsed entities and attributes).
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <a name="l2h-3318"><tt class="class">EntityResolver</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Basic interface for resolving entities. If you create an object
implementing this interface, then register the object with your
Parser, the parser will call the method in your object to resolve all
external entities.
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <a name="l2h-3319"><tt class="class">ErrorHandler</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Interface used by the parser to present error and warning messages
to the application. The methods of this object control whether errors
are immediately converted to exceptions or are handled in some other
way.
</dl>
<P>
In addition to these classes, <tt class="module">xml.sax.handler</tt> provides
symbolic constants for the feature and property names.
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3320"><tt>feature_namespaces</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces"</code>
<BR>
true: Perform Namespace processing.
<BR>
false: Optionally do not perform Namespace processing
(implies namespace-prefixes; default).
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3321"><tt>feature_namespace_prefixes</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes"</code>
<BR>
true: Report the original prefixed names and attributes used for Namespace
declarations.
<BR>
false: Do not report attributes used for Namespace declarations, and
optionally do not report original prefixed names (default).
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3322"><tt>feature_string_interning</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/features/string-interning"</code>
true: All element names, prefixes, attribute names, Namespace URIs, and
local names are interned using the built-in intern function.
<BR>
false: Names are not necessarily interned, although they may be (default).
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3323"><tt>feature_validation</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/features/validation"</code>
<BR>
true: Report all validation errors (implies external-general-entities and
external-parameter-entities).
<BR>
false: Do not report validation errors.
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3324"><tt>feature_external_ges</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities"</code>
<BR>
true: Include all external general (text) entities.
<BR>
false: Do not include external general entities.
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3325"><tt>feature_external_pes</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities"</code>
<BR>
true: Include all external parameter entities, including the external
DTD subset.
<BR>
false: Do not include any external parameter entities, even the external
DTD subset.
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3326"><tt>all_features</tt></a></b>
<dd>
List of all features.
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3327"><tt>property_lexical_handler</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler"</code>
<BR>
data type: xml.sax.sax2lib.LexicalHandler (not supported in Python 2)
<BR>
description: An optional extension handler for lexical events like comments.
<BR>
access: read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3328"><tt>property_declaration_handler</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/properties/declaration-handler"</code>
<BR>
data type: xml.sax.sax2lib.DeclHandler (not supported in Python 2)
<BR>
description: An optional extension handler for DTD-related events other
than notations and unparsed entities.
<BR>
access: read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3329"><tt>property_dom_node</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/properties/dom-node"</code>
<BR>
data type: org.w3c.dom.Node (not supported in Python 2)
<BR>
description: When parsing, the current DOM node being visited if this is
a DOM iterator; when not parsing, the root DOM node for
iteration.
<BR>
access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3330"><tt>property_xml_string</tt></a></b>
<dd>
Value: <code>"http://xml.org/sax/properties/xml-string"</code>
<BR>
data type: String
<BR>
description: The literal string of characters that was the source for
the current event.
<BR>
access: read-only
</dl>
<P>
<dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3331"><tt>all_properties</tt></a></b>
<dd>
List of all known property names.
</dl>
<P>
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