XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

> A gentle suggestion would be to be able to configure XOM to hide some of 
> this. Basically "I know what I want to do and it uses simple XML ideas 
> and doesn't need the complexity of DTDs, Schemas or whatever. I'll take 
> my chances on in working as I would like". For many of us (as I have 
> argued consistently since XML started) Xerces and XMLSchema are vastly 
> more complex than we require and they cause us more problems than they 
> solve. If it weren't for XOM I would have great problems in using XML.


Schemas are not turned on by default, and indeed are not part of the XOM 
model at all.

However the design of XML is such that XOM cannot guarantee proper 
parsing unless it reads the entire DTD. Blame entity references and 
attribute value normalization. Yes, that's a design flaw in XML, but 
it's one XOM has to live with. This is why XOM deliberately always reads 
the entire DTD.

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