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Has anyone ever thought about or discussed the possibility of the

<br>SAXBuilder API allowing for SAX features to be turned on/off ?

<p>For instance,

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder ();

<p>&nbsp; //&nbsp;&nbsp; enable schema validation.

<br>&nbsp; //&nbsp;&nbsp; JDOMException not thrown until build()

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; builder.setFeature ("<A HREF="http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema">http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema</A>",

true);

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; builder.build ( theFile );

<p>This would obviously require SAXBuilder to cache requested feature states

<br>so that they could be turned on/off inside build(), but would be a

very convenient

<br>addition to the API.

<br>&nbsp;

<p>Also, for some reason, I&nbsp;have found that I&nbsp;must set

<br>"<A HREF="http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces">http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces</A>" to true to get the

<br>org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser to handle schema validation. This

<br>is obviously a xerces-j-dev mail list question, but I&nbsp;was wondering

if

<br>anyone else in the jdom world had experienced such a phenomenon ?

<br>&nbsp;

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Jerry Lawson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Virtual Summit, Inc.

Virtual Programmer&nbsp;&nbsp; jerry.lawson@virtualsummit.com</pre>

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