[jdom-interest] Internal DTD subset verification

[Dennis Sosnoski]

Philip Nelson wrote:

>>Gee, thanks! :-) I actually started on my set of tests because I got 
>>tired of seeing unsubstantiated PR claims about JDOM performance 
>>compared to other models.
>>
>
>... The "unsubstantiated pr claims" however were based on untested ideas
>rather than any sort of deception I think.
>
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. There's been some (IMHO) 
over-promotion of JDOM, most noticably by a developer who doesn't seem 
to be involved much in the project any more. That was what I was 
thinking when I wrote the "PR claims" part. There are some far worse 
offenders than JDOM in this area, though!

At this point the big problem I personally see with JDOM is the lack of 
a stable API. Performance gains would be nice but probably aren't the 
deciding factor for most people - most of the document models are close 
enough that I can't see this as a huge issue. I think the best thing 
that can be done to make JDOM a success is just to hammer out an API 
that everyone is willing to live with, then commit to supporting that 
API. That'll give JDOM the stability that developers need to build on.

  - Dennis