Re: [xml-dev] parser models

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Re: [xml-dev] parser models
Amelia A Lewis scripsit:

> To the best of my knowledge, there are no public lexical (editor) APIs. 
> Building a lexical API on top of a syntactic one is ... backwards.  It
> is perfectly easy to imagine, for instance, LAX: the lexical API for
> XML.  This would have different sorts of events, though.  

The partial lexical API I am building has the following events:
aname, aval, entity, eof, etag, gi, pcdata, pi, stagc.  If this were
to be standardized, it would require comment, cdata, and tagws for sure,
perhaps others.

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