XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[dvholten AT computer.org]

hi there,

as you discuss technical performance matters, i'd like to throw in some
more 'stylistic' enhancements:

i propose these changes in xom/Attribute.java  enumeration class 'Type':
- drop int member ' type' 
- add String member 'name' (i propose 'final String' as it is immutable)
- change constructor (and constructor calls) to accept the symbolic names
- drop switch statement in getName(), just return name
- change hashCode() to return name's hashCode

HTH
dvholten
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From: Brian Slesinsky <brian AT slesinsky.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] mysterious error when parsing OpenOffice document
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:51:45 -0800
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On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> The {0} looks like a parser bug to me. I suspect it's reporting the 
> index of a parameter entity in some internal table rather than its 
> actual name. (Just a guess, though. Could be something else.) Which 
> parser are you using?

I didn't specify a SAX parser, so I believe it's just whatever comes 
with Java 1.4.

>> The thing is, I can't find the line that has the error.   It think it 
>> must be one of the files included by office.dtd, but which one?  A 
>> grep doesn't any such parameter entry.  It sure would be nice if XOM 
>> reported both file and line number for errors in included files.
>
> OK. Possibly I could add this, but it would help if I had a 
> reproducible test case of the problem. If the document you're parsing 
> is not private, could you send me a copy? If it is, could you possibly 
> create a test case that demonstrates the problem? Doe sit occur with 
> all OpenOffice documents or just this one?

My suspicion is that any OpenOffice document would do.  Since then I 
tried parsing it with an XML pull parser (xpp3) and that seems to work, 
but it appears to be skipping the DTD.  The DTD I'm using is from the 
RedHat rpm for OpenOffice 1.0.2.

My test document is just a spreadsheet with a single cell, which I've 
attached.  (OpenOffice documents are zip files that contain XML.  The 
content.xml file is the one you want. )

- Brian


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