[jdom-interest] Bug: SAXBuilder locks last parsed document in memory

[Elliotte Harold]

Laurent Bihanic wrote:

> Attached is a patch proposal to add a method clear() to SAXHandler to 
> reset all references it holds after the parse is complete.
> Note: SAXBuilder can't reset the parser's ContentHandler, as setting the 
> ContentHandler to null is not allowed by SAX.

Even if you can't set it to null, but you could set it to a different 
ContentHandler that doesn't have a reference to anything. DefaultHandler 
would work nicely for this.

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