XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I've tracked it down. This is absolutely due to a bug in the 
ResolvingXMLReader class. That class uses JAXP to create a SAXParser 
(always a mistake) and then forgets to make it namespace aware. That is,

  public ResolvingXMLReader() {
    super();
    SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    try {
      SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();
      setParent(parser.getXMLReader());
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Construct a new reader from the JAXP factory.
   *
   * <p>In order to do its job, a ResolvingXMLReader must in fact be
   * a filter. So the only difference between this code and the filter
   * code is that the constructor builds a new reader.</p>
   */
  public ResolvingXMLReader(CatalogManager manager) {
    super(manager);
    SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    try {
      SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();
      setParent(parser.getXMLReader());
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }


should be

  public ResolvingXMLReader() {
    super();
    SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    spf.setNamespaceAware(true);
    try {
      SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();
      setParent(parser.getXMLReader());
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Construct a new reader from the JAXP factory.
   *
   * <p>In order to do its job, a ResolvingXMLReader must in fact be
   * a filter. So the only difference between this code and the filter
   * code is that the constructor builds a new reader.</p>
   */
  public ResolvingXMLReader(CatalogManager manager) {
    super(manager);
    SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    spf.setNamespaceAware(true);
     try {
      SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();
      setParent(parser.getXMLReader());
     } catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
     }
  }


Better yet, this class should be rewritten to use XMLReaderFactory and 
not go anywhere near SAXParserFactory. I'm cc'ing Norm Walsh, and will 
file a bug in Apache's Jira as soon as I can dig up my password. In the 
meantime, XOM will work around this bug.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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