DOM - Creating Documents

[Tim.Shaw at wdr.com]

I don't think Document (which is an interface) has a constructor.

I suggest creating a StringReader, with just your 'stub' wf XML document as the 
String, and then parsing it to create the Document.

This does, of course, imply you need a parser to create a Document - but you 
need the DOM implementation classes anyway.

This is the approach I took in my 'ParserFactory' - which wraps the various 
Parsers for testing purposes. It's just a convenience method really, but that 
seemed like a convenient place to put it :-)

tim

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Subject: Re: DOM - Creating Documents
Author:  donpark (donpark at quake.net) at unix,mime
Date:    22/04/99 16:18


Ronald,
     
> 1) Docuverse requires you to pass a string, presumably the root element
> type.  I assume the reason for this is so that the returned Document will 
> represent a well-formed document. None of the other implementations appear 
> to require this.
     
Actually, you are atttributing me with too much cleverness.  Docuverse's 
DOM.createDocument was modeled after the portion of the DOM Level 1 spec 
that fell off the wagon before release.
     
> 2) Is it really not possible to create a new Document with IBM's classes? 
>  I can't find a method for doing it.
     
Have you tried the constructor?  I don't know much about XML4j but 
DataChannel's so called Most Advanced XML Parser uses constructor to create 
new Documents.
     
Best,
     
Don Park
Docuverse
     
     
     
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