[jdom-interest] On-Line and Off-Line DTD

[Jason Hunter]

philip.nelson at omniresources.com wrote:
> 
> > I had a look at a possible implementation for SAXOutputter.
> > Firing DTD events
> > seems quite easy: Just create a SAX parser instance, parse
> > the DTD string and
> > here are the events! You just have to stop the parsing once
> > the DTD parsing is
> > complete.
> > The problem is "create a SAX parser instance": The code to do
> > that is hidden
> > in SAXBuilder.
> 
> What about using the wutka dtd parser instead?  It would mean another
> dependency, but a theoretically smaller runtime footprint.
> 
> I guess I just have to ask....  how important is roundtripping the DTD in
> scenarios where you would use SAXOutputter, or DOMOutputter for that matter?

SAXOutputter I'm more worried about since that's what we're using to
support XSLT.  DOMBuilder/Outputter support is secondary.

-jh-