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Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubsetreading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream

From: "Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>
To: "'XOM API for Processing XML with Java'" <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubsetreading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:08:28 +0100

> This may or may not be related to your problem, but the first
> thing that jumps out at me is that you should never, never
> use FileReader for anything at all, and especially not for XML.

The other thing that jumps out at me is that you should never, never, use
the Sun fork of Xerces (as built into JDK 1.6) for anything at all, and
especially not for XML. It is ridiculously buggy. Always use Apache Xerces
in preference.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay

[XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Peter Murray-Rust, 09/14/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/14/2009
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubsetreading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Michael Kay, 09/14/2009
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubsetreading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Peter Murray-Rust, 09/14/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/14/2009
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Peter Murray-Rust, 09/14/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/15/2009
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/16/2009
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Peter Murray-Rust, 09/16/2009
      - Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/17/2009
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Peter Murray-Rust, 09/18/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/16/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 09/24/2009