[jdom-interest] Urgent Request to Add a method in SAXBuilder class

[Christian Knorr]

I really appreciate the fast handling of this issue, but I am not sure
if the latest fix from Alex solves the problem with validating against
an external DTD as well (which was mentioned by Tony Zhang). I still
cannot set a _property_ which is needed to validate against an external
DTD or schema which I control by myself. Is there any other possibility
to accomplish this? 

Christian Knorr

Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> > > The TODO gives my thoughts:
> > >
> > > * Consider a builder.setFeature() pass-through method that allows any
> > >   features to be set that aren't in the http://xml.org namespace.  Make
> > >   those in http://xml.org not to be touched because either we have
> > specific
> > >   requirements for them to be set one way, or we have the feature exposed
> > >   through a Java method.
> >
> > Hmmm... The restriction seems a little artificial. What if in the future we
> > require a non-xml.org feature to be set a different way (maybe to work
> > around a bug in a particular parser)? What if in the future a new xml.org
> > feature is added? Nobody will be able to use it until we change the JDOM
> > API, right? etc.
> >
> > Instead, we could just throw an exception if the user tries to set something
> > that we can't handle. Your way is more self-documenting, but my way is more
> > flexible.
> 
> Good points.  OK.
> 
> > > Alex, do you want to create a patch?  Your builder patches last time
> > > were excellent!  :-)
> >
> > Does your flattery increase as your workload goes up? :) Yup, I can send a
> > patch.
> 
> Perhaps, but you're damn good anyway.  :-)
> 
> -jh-
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