DTDHandler And EntityResolver

The DTDHandler API

In Choosing Your Parser Implementation you saw a method for referencing a file that contains binary data, such as an image file, using MIME data types. That is the simplest, most extensible mechanism. For compatibility with older SGML-style data, though, it is also possible to define an unparsed entity.

The NDATA keyword defines an unparsed entity:

  NDATA gif> 

The NDATA keyword says that the data in this entity is not parsable XML data but instead is data that uses some other notation. In this case, the notation is named gif. The DTD must then include a declaration for that notation, which would look something like this:

  NOTATION gif SYSTEM "..URL.."> 

notationDecl(String name, String publicId, String systemId)  
unparsedEntityDecl(String name, String publicId, 
  String systemId, String notationName)  
其实我没有完全弄明白这段是怎么回事。首先NDATA gif>和NOTATION gif SYSTEM "..URL.."> 
要干什么就没有搞清楚。先记下了。

The EntityResolver API

The EntityResolver API lets you convert a public ID (URN) into a system ID (URL). Your application may need to do that, for example, to convert something like href="urn:/someName" into "http://someURL". The EntityResolver interface defines a single method: resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)

 

看了一点文档，感觉这个接口主要是用来处理这样的标签的，可以是dtd文件中也可以是xml文件中，"xx"是表示一个

外部的内容。