XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

luca wrote:

> Elliotte,
>
> using this does not seem to fix the prolem either:
>
> StreamingImgLister sil = new StreamingImgLister();
> Builder builder = new Builder(false,sil);
>
> am I misunderstanding the purpose of the false
> parameter to the constructor?

Passing false to this constructor merely turns off validation, which XOM 
doesn't do by default anyway. XOM will still read the external DTD 
subset because DTDs do more than merely validate. The single biggest 
issue is defining entity references. XOM cannot handle documents that 
contain undefined entities. There are use cases for not resolving 
entities, but this is on the wrong side of XOM's 80/20 split.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu