+ * This module, both source code and documentation, is in the + * Public Domain, and comes with NO WARRANTY. + * See http://www.saxproject.org + * for further information. + *+ * + *
If a SAX application needs to implement customized error + * handling, it must implement this interface and then register an + * instance with the XML reader using the + * {@link org.xml.sax.XMLReader#setErrorHandler setErrorHandler} + * method. The parser will then report all errors and warnings + * through this interface.
+ * + *WARNING: If an application does not + * register an ErrorHandler, XML parsing errors will go unreported, + * except that SAXParseExceptions will be thrown for fatal errors. + * In order to detect validity errors, an ErrorHandler that does something + * with {@link #error error()} calls must be registered.
+ * + *For XML processing errors, a SAX driver must use this interface + * in preference to throwing an exception: it is up to the application + * to decide whether to throw an exception for different types of + * errors and warnings. Note, however, that there is no requirement that + * the parser continue to report additional errors after a call to + * {@link #fatalError fatalError}. In other words, a SAX driver class + * may throw an exception after reporting any fatalError. + * Also parsers may throw appropriate exceptions for non-XML errors. + * For example, {@link XMLReader#parse XMLReader.parse()} would throw + * an IOException for errors accessing entities or the document.
+ * + * @since SAX 1.0 + * @author David Megginson + * @version 2.0.1+ (sax2r3pre1) + * @see org.xml.sax.XMLReader#setErrorHandler + * @see org.xml.sax.SAXParseException + */ +public interface ErrorHandler { + + + /** + * Receive notification of a warning. + * + *SAX parsers will use this method to report conditions that + * are not errors or fatal errors as defined by the XML + * recommendation. The default behaviour is to take no + * action.
+ * + *The SAX parser must continue to provide normal parsing events + * after invoking this method: it should still be possible for the + * application to process the document through to the end.
+ * + *Filters may use this method to report other, non-XML warnings + * as well.
+ * + * @param exception The warning information encapsulated in a + * SAX parse exception. + * @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly + * wrapping another exception. + * @see org.xml.sax.SAXParseException + */ + public abstract void warning (SAXParseException exception) + throws SAXException; + + + /** + * Receive notification of a recoverable error. + * + *This corresponds to the definition of "error" in section 1.2 + * of the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation. For example, a validating + * parser would use this callback to report the violation of a + * validity constraint. The default behaviour is to take no + * action.
+ * + *The SAX parser must continue to provide normal parsing + * events after invoking this method: it should still be possible + * for the application to process the document through to the end. + * If the application cannot do so, then the parser should report + * a fatal error even if the XML recommendation does not require + * it to do so.
+ * + *Filters may use this method to report other, non-XML errors + * as well.
+ * + * @param exception The error information encapsulated in a + * SAX parse exception. + * @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly + * wrapping another exception. + * @see org.xml.sax.SAXParseException + */ + public abstract void error (SAXParseException exception) + throws SAXException; + + + /** + * Receive notification of a non-recoverable error. + * + *There is an apparent contradiction between the + * documentation for this method and the documentation for {@link + * org.xml.sax.ContentHandler#endDocument}. Until this ambiguity + * is resolved in a future major release, clients should make no + * assumptions about whether endDocument() will or will not be + * invoked when the parser has reported a fatalError() or thrown + * an exception.
+ * + *This corresponds to the definition of "fatal error" in + * section 1.2 of the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation. For example, a + * parser would use this callback to report the violation of a + * well-formedness constraint.
+ * + *The application must assume that the document is unusable + * after the parser has invoked this method, and should continue + * (if at all) only for the sake of collecting additional error + * messages: in fact, SAX parsers are free to stop reporting any + * other events once this method has been invoked.
+ * + * @param exception The error information encapsulated in a + * SAX parse exception. + * @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly + * wrapping another exception. + * @see org.xml.sax.SAXParseException + */ + public abstract void fatalError (SAXParseException exception) + throws SAXException; + +} + +// end of ErrorHandler.java