[jdom-interest] Internal DTD subset verification

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:18 PM -0400 5/1/02, Alex Rosen wrote:
>Interestingly, DOM takes a limited verification approach. It's defined to
>throw exceptions for invalid names (e.g. element or attribute names) but not
>for illegal characters in data (e.g. attribute values or text nodes). I'm
>pretty sure that it doesn't check most of the other non-trivial WF
>constraints. That argues against extensive WF checking everywhere being the
>"spirit of XML".
>

It actually varies depending on version of DOM, and implementation. 
Part of the penalty of an interface-based API and runtime exceptions.

In the past, we have advertised our more stringent checking as one of 
the advantages of JDOM over DOM.
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