[jdom-interest] DOMBuilder validation -api error in DOMBuilder.java

[Brett McLaughlin]

Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> > Interesting.  The DOMBuilder class has the flag for validation but never
> > uses it anywhere.   The reason it doesn't use is that the DOMBuilder doesn't
> > do any parsing; it's handed a DOM tree and the parsing has already happened.
> > It's the adapter that has to do the validation.  Here is slightly modified
> > code from the DOMBuilder sample to correctly turn validation on and off.
> 
> Ah, in the latest version Brett and I are hacking on, DOMBuilder can
> again build from InputStreams, Files, etc.  For those it can do
> validation.
> 
> What are people's opinions on keeping or deleting
> DOMBuilder.build(InputStream) and all the other methods that build from
> things other than a DOM Document?  These build() methods build a JDOM
> document by first building a DOM document, so they'll probably always
> execute slower and be more heavyweight than the corresponding SAXBuilder
> build() method.  The reason to keep them anyway is that they can be
> useful for testing (you can compare SAX built versus DOM built documents
> to make sure they're equal) and they are a valid build mechanism.  We of
> course have documentation for them that says they aren't the preferred
> build mechanism.  We'll probably say that for SAXBuilder one day too
> when we recommend SpitfireBuilder.  :-)

Actually, to augment that, there's nothing about DOM that requires it to
use SAX for building. So in future versions, it might build using
something other than SAX. For those cases I thik it's useful to keep
around, because it could be an interesting benchmark at that point.

-Brett

> 
> Opinions?
> 
> -jh-
> 
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