<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <!-- Generated: Wed Apr 07 13:11:21 EDT 2004 jfouffa.w3.org --> <html lang='en-US'> <head> <title>Configuration Settings</title> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='./spec.css'> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='W3C-REC.css'> <link rel='next' href='accessing-code-point-boundaries.html'> <link rel='contents' href='Overview.html#contents'> <link rel='copyright' href='copyright-notice.html'> <link rel='glossary' href='glossary.html'> <link rel='Start' href='Overview.html'> <link rel='index' href='def-index.html'> <link rel='author' href='mailto:www-dom@w3.org'> <link rel='help' href='http://www.w3.org/DOM/'> <link rel='prev' href='infoset-mapping.html'> </head> <body> <div class='navbar' style='text-align: center'> <map id='navbar-top' name='navbar-top' title='Navigation Bar'><p> [<a title='Infoset Mapping' accesskey='p' href='infoset-mapping.html'><strong><u>p</u></strong>revious</a>] [<a title='Accessing code point boundaries' accesskey='n' href='accessing-code-point-boundaries.html'><strong><u>n</u></strong>ext</a>] [<a title='Table of Contents' accesskey='c' href='Overview.html#contents'><strong><u>c</u></strong>ontents</a>] [<a title='Index' accesskey='i' href='def-index.html'><strong><u>i</u></strong>ndex</a>]</p> <hr title='Navigation area separator'> </map></div> <div class='noprint' style='text-align: right'> <p style='font-family: monospace;font-size:small'>07 April 2004</p> </div> <div class='div1'><a name='Parameters'></a> <h1 id='Parameters-h1' class='adiv1'>Appendix D: Configuration Settings</h1> <dl> <dt><i>Editor</i>: </dt><dd>Elena Litani, IBM</dd> </dl> <div class='div2'><a name='ConfigTable'></a> <h2 id='ConfigTable-h2' class='adiv2'>D.1 Configuration Scenarios</h2> <p> Using the <a href='core.html#DOMConfiguration'><code>DOMConfiguration</code></a> users can change behavior of the <code>DOMParser</code>, <code>DOMSerializer</code> and <a href='core.html#Document3-normalizeDocument'><code>Document.normalizeDocument()</code></a>. If a DOM implementation supports XML Schemas and DTD validation, the table below defines behavior of such implementation following various parameter settings on the <a class='noxref' href='core.html#DOMConfiguration'><code>DOMConfiguration</code></a>. Errors are effectively reported only if a <a href='core.html#ERROR-Interfaces-DOMErrorHandler'><code>DOMErrorHandler</code></a> object is attached to the "<a href='core.html#parameter-error-handler'>error-handler</a>" parameter. </p><table border='1' summary='Layout table: the first cell contains the value of schema-type parameter, the second contains the value of validate parameter, the third contains the value of the validate-if-schema parameter, the 4th contains the actual document schemas, the 5th contains the output of such configuration, the 6th list addition parameters that can be effected.' cellpadding='3' > <tr> <th rowspan='1' colspan='1'> "<a href='core.html#parameter-schema-type'>schema-type</a>"</th><th rowspan='1' colspan='1'> "<a href='core.html#parameter-validate'>validate</a>"</th><th rowspan='1' colspan='1'> "<a href='core.html#parameter-validate-if-schema'>validate-if-schema</a>"</th><th rowspan='1' colspan='1'> Instance schemas, i.e. the current schema</th><th rowspan='1' colspan='1'> Outcome</th><th rowspan='1' colspan='1'> Other parameters</th></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> <code>null</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> DTD and XML Schema</td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Implementation dependent</td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> The outcome of setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-datatype-normalization'>datatype-normalization</a>", "<a href='core.html#parameter-element-content-whitespace'>element-content-whitespace</a>" or "<a href='core.html#parameter-namespaces'>namespaces</a>" parameters to <code>true</code> or <code>false</code> is implementation dependent. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> <code>null</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> none</td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> Report an error</td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-datatype-normalization'>datatype-normalization</a>" to <code>true</code> or <code>false</code> has no effect on the DOM. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> No error is reported</td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> <code>null</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> DTD</td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Validate against DTD</td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-datatype-normalization'>datatype-normalization</a>" to <code>true</code> or <code>false</code> has no effect on the DOM. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> <code>null</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> XML Schema</td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Validate against XML Schema </td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> The outcome of setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-namespaces'>namespaces</a>" to <code>false</code> is implementation dependent (likely to be an error). Setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-element-content-whitespace'>element-content-whitespace</a>" to <code>false</code> does not have any effect on the DOM. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> <code>"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> DTD or XML Schema or both</td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> If DTD is found, validate against DTD. Otherwise, report an error. </td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-datatype-normalization'>datatype-normalization</a>" to <code>true</code> or <code>false</code> has no effect on the DOM. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> If DTD is found, validate against DTD.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> <code>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> DTD or XML Schema or both</td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> If XML Schema is found, validate against the schema. Otherwise, report an error. </td><td valign='top' rowspan='2' colspan='1'> Setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-datatype-normalization'>datatype-normalization</a>" to <code>true</code> exposes XML Schema <a class='normative' href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/#key-nv'>normalized values</a> in the DOM. The outcome of setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-namespaces'>namespaces</a>" to <code>false</code> is implementation dependent (likely to be an error). </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>true</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> If XML Schema is found, validate against the schema. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</code> or <code>"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"</code> </td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> <code>false</code></td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> DTD or XML Schema or both</td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> If XML Schema is found, it is ignored. DOM implementations <a class='normative' href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204#proc-types'>may</a> use information available in the DTD to perform <a class='normative' href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204#intern-replacement'>entity resolution</a>. </td><td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'> Setting the "<a href='core.html#parameter-datatype-normalization'>datatype-normalization</a>" to <code>true</code> of <code>false</code> has no effect on the DOM. </td></tr> </table> <p><b>Note:</b> If an error has to be reported, as specified in the "Outcome" column above, the <a href='core.html#ERROR-DOMError-type'><code>DOMError.type</code></a> is <code>"no-schema-available"</code>. </p> </div> <!-- div2 ConfigTable --></div> <!-- div1 Parameters --><div class='navbar' style='text-align: center'> <map id='navbar-bottom' name='navbar-bottom' title='Navigation Bar'><hr title='Navigation area separator'><p> [<a title='Infoset Mapping' href='infoset-mapping.html'><strong><u>p</u></strong>revious</a>] [<a title='Accessing code point boundaries' href='accessing-code-point-boundaries.html'><strong><u>n</u></strong>ext</a>] [<a title='Table of Contents' href='Overview.html#contents'><strong><u>c</u></strong>ontents</a>] [<a title='Index' href='def-index.html'><strong><u>i</u></strong>ndex</a>]</p> </map></div> </body> </html>