DOM - Creating Documents

[Ronald Bourret]

Leigh Dodds wrote:

> But that said, each of the listed methods presuppose the availability
> of an existing document, correct? Whereas I was initially concerned
> about the inability to generate a completely *new* document

The methods Michael Kay listed create documents from a SAX InputSource. 
 The methods I listed are the ways to create a completely new document, 
which is what you originally requested.  Because Docuverse's methods 
require the root element type, it seems any generic method should accept 
this as an argument and return a Document.  (Missing from my list was how 
to create a new Document with IBM's xml4j.  As Jeff Greif pointed out, you 
simply use the constructor on TXDocument.)

> , but
> it has been demonstrated to me that this involves some implementation
> specific bootstrapping. And from the later discussions all I gather
> the W3C *could* specify is some standard registry/property keys/values
> that would feed into this bootstrapping mechanism. Would that
> be a fair assessment of the situation?

Yes.

-- Ron Bourret


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