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+# saxes
+
+A sax-style non-validating parser for XML.
+
+Saxes is a fork of [sax](https://github.com/isaacs/sax-js) 1.2.4. All mentions
+of sax in this project's documentation are references to sax 1.2.4.
+
+Designed with [node](http://nodejs.org/) in mind, but should work fine in the
+browser or other CommonJS implementations.
+
+Saxes does not support Node versions older than 10.
+
+## Notable Differences from Sax.
+
+* Saxes aims to be much stricter than sax with regards to XML
+ well-formedness. Sax, even in its so-called "strict mode", is not strict. It
+ silently accepts structures that are not well-formed XML. Projects that need
+ better compliance with well-formedness constraints cannot use sax as-is.
+
+ Consequently, saxes does not support HTML, or pseudo-XML, or bad XML. Saxes
+ will report well-formedness errors in all these cases but it won't try to
+ extract data from malformed documents like sax does.
+
+* Saxes is much much faster than sax, mostly because of a substantial redesign
+ of the internal parsing logic. The speed improvement is not merely due to
+ removing features that were supported by sax. That helped a bit, but saxes
+ adds some expensive checks in its aim for conformance with the XML
+ specification. Redesigning the parsing logic is what accounts for most of the
+ performance improvement.
+
+* Saxes does not aim to support antiquated platforms. We will not pollute the
+ source or the default build with support for antiquated platforms. If you want
+ support for IE 11, you are welcome to produce a PR that adds a *new build*
+ transpiled to ES5.
+
+* Saxes handles errors differently from sax: it provides a default onerror
+ handler which throws. You can replace it with your own handler if you want. If
+ your handler does nothing, there is no `resume` method to call.
+
+* There's no `Stream` API. A revamped API may be introduced later. (It is still
+ a "streaming parser" in the general sense that you write a character stream to
+ it.)
+
+* Saxes does not have facilities for limiting the size the data chunks passed to
+ event handlers. See the FAQ entry for more details.
+
+## Conformance
+
+Saxes supports:
+
+* [XML 1.0 fifth edition](https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/)
+* [XML 1.1 second edition](https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/)
+* [Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)](https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/).
+* [Namespaces in XML 1.1 (Second Edition)](https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816/).
+
+## Limitations
+
+This is a non-validating parser so it only verifies whether the document is
+well-formed. We do aim to raise errors for all malformed constructs
+encountered. However, this parser does not thorougly parse the contents of
+DTDs. So most malformedness errors caused by errors **in DTDs** cannot be
+reported.
+
+## Regarding `<!DOCTYPE` and `<!ENTITY`
+
+The parser will handle the basic XML entities in text nodes and attribute
+values: `&amp; &lt; &gt; &apos; &quot;`. It's possible to define additional
+entities in XML by putting them in the DTD. This parser doesn't do anything with
+that. If you want to listen to the `doctype` event, and then fetch the
+doctypes, and read the entities and add them to `parser.ENTITIES`, then be my
+guest.
+
+## Documentation
+
+The source code contains JSDOC comments. Use them. What follows is a brief
+summary of what is available. The final authority is the source code.
+
+**PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT IS PUBLIC AND WHAT IS PRIVATE.**
+
+The move to TypeScript makes it so that everything is now formally private,
+protected, or public.
+
+If you use anything not public, that's at your own peril.
+
+If there's a mistake in the documentation, raise an issue. If you just assume,
+you may assume incorrectly.
+
+## Summary Usage Information
+
+### Example
+
+```javascript
+var saxes = require("./lib/saxes"),
+ parser = new saxes.SaxesParser();
+
+parser.on("error", function (e) {
+ // an error happened.
+});
+parser.on("text", function (t) {
+ // got some text. t is the string of text.
+});
+parser.on("opentag", function (node) {
+ // opened a tag. node has "name" and "attributes"
+});
+parser.on("end", function () {
+ // parser stream is done, and ready to have more stuff written to it.
+});
+
+parser.write('<xml>Hello, <who name="world">world</who>!</xml>').close();
+```
+
+### Constructor Arguments
+
+Settings supported:
+
+* `xmlns` - Boolean. If `true`, then namespaces are supported. Default
+ is `false`.
+
+* `position` - Boolean. If `false`, then don't track line/col/position. Unset is
+ treated as `true`. Default is unset. Currently, setting this to `false` only
+ results in a cosmetic change: the errors reported do not contain position
+ information. sax-js would literally turn off the position-computing logic if
+ this flag was set to false. The notion was that it would optimize
+ execution. In saxes at least it turns out that continually testing this flag
+ causes a cost that offsets the benefits of turning off this logic.
+
+* `fileName` - String. Set a file name for error reporting. This is useful only
+ when tracking positions. You may leave it unset.
+
+* `fragment` - Boolean. If `true`, parse the XML as an XML fragment. Default is
+ `false`.
+
+* `additionalNamespaces` - A plain object whose key, value pairs define
+ namespaces known before parsing the XML file. It is not legal to pass
+ bindings for the namespaces `"xml"` or `"xmlns"`.
+
+* `defaultXMLVersion` - The default version of the XML specification to use if
+ the document contains no XML declaration. If the document does contain an XML
+ declaration, then this setting is ignored. Must be `"1.0"` or `"1.1"`. The
+ default is `"1.0"`.
+
+* `forceXMLVersion` - Boolean. A flag indicating whether to force the XML
+ version used for parsing to the value of ``defaultXMLVersion``. When this flag
+ is ``true``, ``defaultXMLVersion`` must be specified. If unspecified, the
+ default value of this flag is ``false``.
+
+ Example: suppose you are parsing a document that has an XML declaration
+ specifying XML version 1.1.
+
+ If you set ``defaultXMLVersion`` to ``"1.0"`` without setting
+ ``forceXMLVersion`` then the XML declaration will override the value of
+ ``defaultXMLVersion`` and the document will be parsed according to XML 1.1.
+
+ If you set ``defaultXMLVersion`` to ``"1.0"`` and set ``forceXMLVersion`` to
+ ``true``, then the XML declaration will be ignored and the document will be
+ parsed according to XML 1.0.
+
+### Methods
+
+`write` - Write bytes onto the stream. You don't have to pass the whole document
+in one `write` call. You can read your source chunk by chunk and call `write`
+with each chunk.
+
+`close` - Close the stream. Once closed, no more data may be written until it is
+done processing the buffer, which is signaled by the `end` event.
+
+### Properties
+
+The parser has the following properties:
+
+`line`, `column`, `columnIndex`, `position` - Indications of the position in the
+XML document where the parser currently is looking. The `columnIndex` property
+counts columns as if indexing into a JavaScript string, whereas the `column`
+property counts Unicode characters.
+
+`closed` - Boolean indicating whether or not the parser can be written to. If
+it's `true`, then wait for the `ready` event to write again.
+
+`opt` - Any options passed into the constructor.
+
+`xmlDecl` - The XML declaration for this document. It contains the fields
+`version`, `encoding` and `standalone`. They are all `undefined` before
+encountering the XML declaration. If they are undefined after the XML
+declaration, the corresponding value was not set by the declaration. There is no
+event associated with the XML declaration. In a well-formed document, the XML
+declaration may be preceded only by an optional BOM. So by the time any event
+generated by the parser happens, the declaration has been processed if present
+at all. Otherwise, you have a malformed document, and as stated above, you
+cannot rely on the parser data!
+
+### Error Handling
+
+The parser continues to parse even upon encountering errors, and does its best
+to continue reporting errors. You should heed all errors reported. After an
+error, however, saxes may interpret your document incorrectly. For instance
+``<foo a=bc="d"/>`` is invalid XML. Did you mean to have ``<foo a="bc=d"/>`` or
+``<foo a="b" c="d"/>`` or some other variation? For the sake of continuing to
+provide errors, saxes will continue parsing the document, but the structure it
+reports may be incorrect. It is only after the errors are fixed in the document
+that saxes can provide a reliable interpretation of the document.
+
+That leaves you with two rules of thumb when using saxes:
+
+* Pay attention to the errors that saxes report. The default `onerror` handler
+ throws, so by default, you cannot miss errors.
+
+* **ONCE AN ERROR HAS BEEN ENCOUNTERED, STOP RELYING ON THE EVENT HANDLERS OTHER
+ THAN `onerror`.** As explained above, when saxes runs into a well-formedness
+ problem, it makes a guess in order to continue reporting more errors. The guess
+ may be wrong.
+
+### Events
+
+To listen to an event, override `on<eventname>`. The list of supported events
+are also in the exported `EVENTS` array.
+
+See the JSDOC comments in the source code for a description of each supported
+event.
+
+### Parsing XML Fragments
+
+The XML specification does not define any method by which to parse XML
+fragments. However, there are usage scenarios in which it is desirable to parse
+fragments. In order to allow this, saxes provides three initialization options.
+
+If you pass the option `fragment: true` to the parser constructor, the parser
+will expect an XML fragment. It essentially starts with a parsing state
+equivalent to the one it would be in if `parser.write("<foo">)` had been called
+right after initialization. In other words, it expects content which is
+acceptable inside an element. This also turns off well-formedness checks that
+are inappropriate when parsing a fragment.
+
+The option `additionalNamespaces` allows you to define additional prefix-to-URI
+bindings known before parsing starts. You would use this over `resolvePrefix` if
+you have at the ready a series of namespaces bindings to use.
+
+The option `resolvePrefix` allows you to pass a function which saxes will use if
+it is unable to resolve a namespace prefix by itself. You would use this over
+`additionalNamespaces` in a context where getting a complete list of defined
+namespaces is onerous.
+
+Note that you can use `additionalNamespaces` and `resolvePrefix` together if you
+want. `additionalNamespaces` applies before `resolvePrefix`.
+
+The options `additionalNamespaces` and `resolvePrefix` are really meant to be
+used for parsing fragments. However, saxes won't prevent you from using them
+with `fragment: false`. Note that if you do this, your document may parse
+without errors and yet be malformed because the document can refer to namespaces
+which are not defined *in* the document.
+
+Of course, `additionalNamespaces` and `resolvePrefix` are used only if `xmlns`
+is `true`. If you are parsing a fragment that does not use namespaces, there's
+no point in setting these options.
+
+### Performance Tips
+
+* saxes works faster on files that use newlines (``\u000A``) as end of line
+ markers than files that use other end of line markers (like ``\r`` or
+ ``\r\n``). The XML specification requires that conformant applications behave
+ as if all characters that are to be treated as end of line characters are
+ converted to ``\u000A`` prior to parsing. The optimal code path for saxes is a
+ file in which all end of line characters are already ``\u000A``.
+
+* Don't split Unicode strings you feed to saxes across surrogates. When you
+ naively split a string in JavaScript, you run the risk of splitting a Unicode
+ character into two surrogates. e.g. In the following example ``a`` and ``b``
+ each contain half of a single Unicode character: ``const a = "\u{1F4A9}"[0];
+ const b = "\u{1F4A9}"[1]`` If you feed such split surrogates to versions of
+ saxes prior to 4, you'd get errors. Saxes version 4 and over are able to
+ detect when a chunk of data ends with a surrogate and carry over the surrogate
+ to the next chunk. However this operation entails slicing and concatenating
+ strings. If you can feed your data in a way that does not split surrogates,
+ you should do it. (Obviously, feeding all the data at once with a single write
+ is fastest.)
+
+* Don't set event handlers you don't need. Saxes has always aimed to avoid doing
+ work that will just be tossed away but future improvements hope to do this
+ more aggressively. One way saxes knows whether or not some data is needed is
+ by checking whether a handler has been set for a specific event.
+
+## FAQ
+
+Q. Why has saxes dropped support for limiting the size of data chunks passed to
+event handlers?
+
+A. With sax you could set ``MAX_BUFFER_LENGTH`` to cause the parser to limit the
+size of data chunks passed to event handlers. So if you ran into a span of text
+above the limit, multiple ``text`` events with smaller data chunks were fired
+instead of a single event with a large chunk.
+
+However, that functionality had some problematic characteristics. It had an
+arbitrary default value. It was library-wide so all parsers created from a
+single instance of the ``sax`` library shared it. This could potentially cause
+conflicts among libraries running in the same VM but using sax for different
+purposes.
+
+These issues could have been easily fixed, but there were larger issues. The
+buffer limit arbitrarily applied to some events but not others. It would split
+``text``, ``cdata`` and ``script`` events. However, if a ``comment``,
+``doctype``, ``attribute`` or ``processing instruction`` were more than the
+limit, the parser would generate an error and you were left picking up the
+pieces.
+
+It was not intuitive to use. You'd think setting the limit to 1K would prevent
+chunks bigger than 1K to be passed to event handlers. But that was not the
+case. A comment in the source code told you that you might go over the limit if
+you passed large chunks to ``write``. So if you want a 1K limit, don't pass 64K
+chunks to ``write``. Fair enough. You know what limit you want so you can
+control the size of the data you pass to ``write``. So you limit the chunks to
+``write`` to 1K at a time. Even if you do this, your event handlers may get data
+chunks that are 2K in size. Suppose on the previous ``write`` the parser has
+just finished processing an open tag, so it is ready for text. Your ``write``
+passes 1K of text. You are not above the limit yet, so no event is generated
+yet. The next ``write`` passes another 1K of text. It so happens that sax checks
+buffer limits only once per ``write``, after the chunk of data has been
+processed. Now you've hit the limit and you get a ``text`` event with 2K of
+data. So even if you limit your ``write`` calls to the buffer limit you've set,
+you may still get events with chunks at twice the buffer size limit you've
+specified.
+
+We may consider reinstating an equivalent functionality, provided that it
+addresses the issues above and does not cause a huge performance drop for
+use-case scenarios that don't need it.