XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jan 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>
> > Plus you could move the "empty" static variable inside the method for 
> >  improved clarity:
> > //    private static InputSource empty;
> >     static synchronized void checkInternalDTDSubset(String subset) {
> >         if (parser == null) {
> >                //empty = new InputSource(new EmptyReader());
> >                final InputSource empty = new InputSource(new  
> > EmptyReader());
> >             ... and so on
>
> Yes. It just didn't seem necessary to recreate that object on every 
> pass through the method, though I'm sure it's not as heavyweight an 
> operation as loading a parser.

It's still only created once, that is initially on parser == null.