[jdom-interest] Feature Request

[Jeremy.Prellwitz at siras.com]

I think this is a correct statement.

>If I understand this correctly, if you don't use nekohtmlXni.jar, then
>you won't have the problem?

My work around is to set the system property as described in step 1.  And
then to un-set the property immediately after i've the parser has been
created, so that the NekoHTML code will still work properly, and get its
HTML parser confirguration from step 3.


According to the xml.apache.org website:
http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xni.html#faq-2

The DOM and SAX parsers decide which parser configuration to use in the
following order:

1.) First, the org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration system
property is queried for the class name of the parser configuration.

2.) Next, if a file called xerces.properties exists in the lib subdirectory
of the JRE installation and the
org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration property is defined it,
then its value will be read from the file.

3.) Next, the org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration file is
requested from the META-INF/services/ directory. This file contains the
class name of the parser configuration.

4.) Finally, the org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration is used as
the default parser configuration.
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                


-jeremy
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This sounds like a good description of the problem.  Because i'm using
NekoHTML to parse HTML documents, and in the same webapp, i also need to
parse XML documents.

To clarify, i do have a work around, and that is to set a Java runtime
system property.  Its just not a clean solution, and I think offering a way
to pass in an XMLReader class that can be instantiated with the
StandardParserConfiguration class would be a good way to go.

-jeremy






                                                                           
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At 11:40 AM +1100 2/20/04, Chris B. wrote:
>Nekohtml has some information on making it play nice with other parsers.
>
>I'm not an expert on the internals of sax etc, but wouldn't the
>Right Thing (tm) for have been for NekoHtml to have provided an
>XMLReader implementation, which could then be plugged into JDOM?
>
>

The problem here is a design flaw in Xerces. It assumes you will only
ever want one parser configuration in the same VM. (This is not an
XMLReader. This is an internal, non-standard class in Xerces.) Thus
once the parser configuration has been set through the appropriate
system property or default, you're stuck with it for all your Xerces
parsing. Possibly you could change the system property in your code,
but I'm not sure whether that would work or not.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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