XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Edwin Dankert wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, I had another good look at the code and
> realize that I did something wrong.
>
> The other simplified XML Object Model APIs all set the namespace-
> awareness property on the supplied XMLReader by default and XOM
> doesn't.

Um, no. That's not right. The issue is not XMLReader, which is a 
correctly designed API. The issue is SAXParser and SAXParserFactory, 
which isn't.  If you stuck to XMLReader and XMLReaderFactory, this would 
not have happened.

> Could you elaborate on this?

You just did. This class should be namespace aware by default. It was 
designed for the non-namespace-aware SAX 1 API. It simply does not fit 
well with SAX2. I've tried to get this class removed from the JDK or at 
least deprecated, so far without success.

> I intend to use the JAXP 1.3 mechanism to validate the XML input
> document, setting the Schema object on the SAXParserFactory
> which can then provide me with a correctly configured SAXParser/XMLReader.
>
> Would you suggest I use the
> "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaSource"; property
> instead?

I usually use the Xerces specific properties for that.


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