SAX Reader Features

Article
10/27/2016

SAX reader features are manipulated through the getFeature or putFeature method on the SAX reader (ISAXXMLReader/IVBSAXXMLReader).

The following is a complete list of SAX reader features.

Feature	Variant Type	Default Value	MSXML Component
exhaustive-errors	Boolean	False	3.0 and 6.0
external-general-entities	Boolean	False	3.0 and 6.0
external-parameter-entities	Boolean	False	3.0 and 6.0
forced-resync Feature	Boolean	True	3.0 and 6.0
namespace-prefixes	Boolean	True	3.0 and 6.0
namespaces	Boolean	True	3.0 and 6.0
parameter-entities	Boolean	True	3.0 and 6.0
preserve-system-identifiers	Boolean	False	3.0 and 6.0
prohibit-dtd	Boolean	False for 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. True for 6.0.	3.0 and 6.0
schema-validation	Boolean	False	6.0
server-http-request	Boolean	False	3.0 and 6.0
suppress-validation-fatalError Feature	Boolean	False	6.0
use-inline-schema Feature	Boolean	False	6.0
use-schema-location Feature	Boolean	False	6.0

Validate property settings	Behavior of the parser
`use-inline-schema = true` `schema-validation = true`	Parsing an XML document that is not valid against the specified schema will result in an error.
`use-inline-schema = true` `schema-validation = false`	Parsing an XML document that is not valid against the specified schema will result in successful validation.
`use-inline-schema = false` `schema-validation = true`	Parsing an XML document that is not valid against the specified schema will result in successful validation. Validation will succeed becayse when `use-inline-schema` is set to false, inline schemas are treated like any other XML fragments.
`use-schema-location = true` `schema-validation = true`	Parsing an XML document that is not valid against the specified schema will result in an error.
`use-schema-location = true` `schema-validation = false`	Parsing an XML document that is not valid against the specified schema will result in successful validation.
`use-schema-location = false` `schema-validation = true`	Parsing an XML document that is not valid against the specified schema will result in an error.