startDocument/endDocument for document fragments

This is real issue that arises in JDOM's XSLT implementation.

Consider SAX being used to parse document fragments; i.e. well-balanced 
trees that do not have root elements. Also consider it being used to 
create such a thing, especially as output from an XSLT transform via 
SAXResult. Should startDoument and endDocument be called or not? Oracle 
does not call them. Most other TrAX implementations do.

I tried to get the JCP to fix this in their definition of TrAX, but it 
didn't happen. Would SAX like to attempt this?

On this one, I do think it's reasonable to rule this as beyond the 
bounds of what SAX defines; i.e., SAX says nothing about what happens 
when the input to the ContentHandler is something other than a parser 
reaing a real XML document. However, if there is a clean ay this could 
be fixed, it might be worthwhile.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold



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