[jdom-interest] How to find out which parser is being used

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:36 AM -0500 12/10/02, David Kavanagh wrote:


>    org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl    - for the crimson parser
>You can assume that with JDK1.4 and greater, crimson is being used 
>by default. You could replace it by setting the above property.


In Java 1.4 and probably 1.4.1, yes. However, later versions (or 
versions from different vendors) are likely to use Xerces instead. 
Bottom line: if you really care which parser is used, specify it 
explicitly.
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