XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 4:45 PM -0700 9/27/02, O'Brien-Strain, Eamonn wrote:

> -- Sparta is a stand-alone package with its own parser.  There is an 
> optional wrapper that presents the W3C APIs.

One thing I was not able to determine by browsing of the JavaDocs and 
source code is how conformant the parser is. Given that Sparta does 
not resolve external entities or validate, (which is allowed by the 
XML spec) does it still make all remaining well-formedness checks? 
Will it throw an exception if an illegal character is used in an 
element name? Will it notice problems in the internal DTD subset? 
Does it pass the Oasis XML conformance tests 
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/suite-v1se/xmlconf-20010315.htm> 
for a processor of its type?
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