XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[teknokrat <teknokrat AT yahoo.com>]

Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> --- teknokrat <teknokrat AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > We are dealing with legacy xml feeds and have run
> > across two problems 
> > that are making our lives difficult.
> >
> > 1. leading spaces before the <?xml declaration. Is
> > it possible for xom 
> > to strip these out?
> >
> > 2. We get given DOCTYPE declarations that do not
> > point to a correct DTD. 
> >   This breaks XOM even though we ask for a non
> > validating parser.
>
> Others have already answered with most of the details,
> but this last entry has one more related intricacy.
> Unfortunately, even when not validating, XML spec
> mandates couple of things to be done based on DTD, by
> parsers capable of validation. Specifically, attribute
> typing and value normalization. At least that's what
> Xerces does, and as a result, what newer parsers tend
> to do (since Xerces pretty much defines de facto
> standard mode of processing in Java, IMO).
>
> The easiest way to work around that is, like was
> already said, by defining a custom entity resolver to
> return something like empty content.
>
> -+ Tatu +-
>
>
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what exactly do you mean by empty content. The entity resolver interface 
returns and InputSource. I've tried it wil an InputStram that returns no 
data but that doesn't work.

cheers