[jdom-interest] Adding a JDOMParseException to org.jdom.input

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 6:15 PM +0100 1/16/03, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

>Use case: My main objective here was to be able to retrieve the envelope part
>of a document made of a protocol envelope and an application body, the
>envelope content being sufficient to return a protocol-compliant 
>fault response.

Interesting. I hadn't thought of this before. I may borrow the idea 
for XOM. See discussion on xml-dev.

However, there are also problems. For instance, if the 
well-formedness error is a missing end-tag, then the element with the 
missing end-tag will still appear in the partial tree. Is this OK?

And if the problem is a missing root element, then this may produce a 
Document object with no root element. We've generally tried to avoid 
this.  Could this violate any of the usual assumptions of JDOM on 
which other code might depend?
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