[jdom-interest] Toward beta 9

[Steve Conover]

> My proposed solution was to make the verifier a separate, optional
> step. When the user creates a document in-memory (as opposed to
> parsing
> a file), then should run the verifier on it when they're done. Many
> people won't do this, and that's their prerogative, but at some point
> down the line some XML parser will find the error when their document
> gets parsed, so it's not the end of the world. (That's why the parser
> is
> required to be so strict, IMO - so the generator doesn't have to be.)

Just to add a user's opinion - I'm in complete agreement with Alex. 
The code I'm writing is 100% unit tested and the verifier step is just
wasted cpu cycles.  If JDOM is delivered like this I for one will just
hack it and make it verification-optional.

Regards,
Steve