[jdom-interest] JDOMResult silently absorbs document fragments (was: Re: [jdom-interest] Question about JDOMResult and usage with XMLReader)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:52 AM +0200 8/19/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

>No, JDOMResult only accepts well-formed documents and do throw an 
>exception when it detects multiple root elements.

But it shouldn't be doing that! An XSLT transformation can produce a 
document fragment. JDOM's representation of a document fragment is a 
java.util.List containing various Text, Element, Comment, and 
ProcessingInstruction objects. JDOMResult should be based on such a 
List rather than on a Document. The design of JDOMResult is simply 
not consistent with XSLT or TrAX.
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