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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#include "nsISupports.idl"
+
+/**
+ * SAX2 extension handler for lexical events.
+ *
+ * This is an extension handler for SAX2 to provide lexical
+ * information about an XML document, such as comments and CDATA
+ * section boundaries.
+ *
+ * The events in the lexical handler apply to the entire document,
+ * not just to the document element, and all lexical handler events
+ * must appear between the content handler's startDocument and
+ * endDocument events.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(23c26a56-adff-440c-8caf-95c2dc2e399b)]
+interface nsISAXLexicalHandler : nsISupports {
+
+ /**
+ * Report an XML comment anywhere in the document.
+ *
+ * This callback will be used for comments inside or outside the
+ * document element, including comments in the external DTD subset
+ * (if read). Comments in the DTD must be properly nested inside
+ * start/endDTD and start/endEntity events (if used).
+ *
+ * @param chars The characters in the comment.
+ */
+ void comment(in AString chars);
+
+ /**
+ * Report the start of DTD declarations, if any.
+ *
+ * This method is intended to report the beginning of the
+ * DOCTYPE declaration; if the document has no DOCTYPE declaration,
+ * this method will not be invoked.
+ *
+ * All declarations reported through DTDHandler or DeclHandler
+ * events must appear between the startDTD and endDTD events.
+ * Declarations are assumed to belong to the internal DTD subset
+ * unless they appear between startEntity and endEntity events.
+ * Comments and processing instructions from the DTD should also be
+ * reported between the startDTD and endDTD events, in their
+ * original order of (logical) occurrence; they are not required to
+ * appear in their correct locations relative to DTDHandler or
+ * DeclHandler events, however.
+ *
+ * Note that the start/endDTD events will appear within the
+ * start/endDocument events from ContentHandler and before the first
+ * startElement event.
+ *
+ * @param name The document type name.
+ * @param publicId The declared public identifier for the
+ * external DTD subset, or null if none was declared.
+ * @param systemId The declared system identifier for the
+ * external DTD subset, or null if none was declared.
+ * (Note that this is not resolved against the document
+ * base URI.)
+ */
+ void startDTD(in AString name, in AString publicId, in AString systemId);
+
+ /**
+ * Report the end of DTD declarations.
+ *
+ * This method is intended to report the end of the
+ * DOCTYPE declaration; if the document has no DOCTYPE declaration,
+ * this method will not be invoked.
+ */
+ void endDTD();
+
+ /**
+ * Report the start of a CDATA section.
+ *
+ * The contents of the CDATA section will be reported through the
+ * regular characters event; this event is intended only to report
+ * the boundary.
+ */
+ void startCDATA();
+
+ /**
+ * Report the end of a CDATA section.
+ */
+ void endCDATA();
+
+ /**
+ * Report the beginning of some internal and external XML entities.
+ *
+ * Because of the streaming event model that SAX uses, some
+ * entity boundaries cannot be reported under any circumstances:
+ *
+ * 1.) general entities within attribute values
+ * 2.) parameter entities within declarations
+ *
+ * These will be silently expanded, with no indication of where
+ * the original entity boundaries were.
+ *
+ * Note also that the boundaries of character references (which
+ * are not really entities anyway) are not reported.
+ *
+ * All start/endEntity events must be properly nested.
+ *
+ * @param name The name of the entity. If it is a parameter
+ * entity, the name will begin with '%', and if it is the
+ * external DTD subset, it will be "[dtd]".
+ */
+ void startEntity(in AString name);
+
+ /**
+ * Report the end of an entity.
+ *
+ * @param name The name of the entity that is ending.
+ */
+ void endEntity(in AString name);
+};