[jdom-interest] DeclHandler interface

[Watson, John]

Hi - I've just taken my first look at JDOM, and I like the simplified
interface it has.  I'm investigating using it to develop a simple
DTD-directed XML editor, and I've run into a couple of problems.

Firstly, a bug.  SAXHandler implements DeclHandler (with empty method
bodies).  However it restricts this interface, because its methods do not
throw SAXException as they should.  I doubt if there's any reason to
restrict possible subclasses of SAXHandler in this way - I imagine it's just
an oversight.  (I want a subclass that both builds a JDOM tree and parses
the DTD).

Secondly a problem.  I'd like to use JDOM Elements as the model in an MVC
tree view using the Swing JTree class. This class builds trees from any
underlying model object, as long as this implements the toString() method.
Unfortunately, the Element class has an implemenation of toString that is
far too verbose for my needs - I just want the element name (probably
prefixed by the schema name) and nothing else.  I've got round this by
writing a wrapper for Element with it's toString method overridden, but this
is clumsy.  Any ideas about something a bit cleaner?

Cheers

John Watson
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