Python & XML

Name

LexicalHandler

Synopsis

The LexicalHandler is used to receive information about syntactical events such as CDATA section boundaries and comments in a document. It is only supported using PyXML; the standard library does not provide this. A simple base class for this handler is available as the LexicalHandler class in the xml.sax.saxlib module. The LexicalHandler can be set using the setProperty method on the parser object, using the property constant property_lexical_handler from the xml.sax.handler module.

comment( text )

This method is called when the parser finds a comment in the document. The body of the comment, between the two occurrences of --, is passed as the text parameter.

startDTD( )

This method is called before the parser starts reading any DTD information, regardless of whether that information is in the internal or external subset. This method is called at most once.

endDTD( )

The parser calls this method after all DTD information is read; it is called at most once.

startEntity( name )

This method is called when the parser begins parsing the entity associated with the name name in the DTD. The only way to know about the names defined in the DTD is to provide a DeclHandler and implement the externalEntityDecl and internalEntityDecl methods.

endEntity( name )

The parser calls this method when it is finished parsing the entity identified by name. See startEntity for information about using entity names.

startCDATA( )

This method is called at the start of a CDATA section. ...