What the ContentHandler Doesn't Tell You
The ContentHandler interface is designed to provide everything most applications need to know about an XML instance document. What it leaves out are things you rarely care about, although most of these are available through other callback interfaces discussed in the next chapter. These include
Comments, unskipped entities, and CDATA sections, all of which are available through the LexicalHandler interface
The names, public IDs, system IDs, and notations for unparsed entities; and the names, public IDs, and system IDs for notations—all of which are available through the DTDHandler interface
ELEMENT, ATTLIST, and parsed ENTITY declarations from the DTD, all of which are reported through the DeclHandler interface ...
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