Re: JAXP and setting org.xml.sax.driver

>Hi,
>
>I have installed j2sdk1.4 on a Windows XP PC.  JAXP is included in 1.4.
>I have coded a Java program to use
>XMLReaderFActory.createXMLReader() to get an XMLReader parser
>object.  However, when I execute it, I get an exception, "System
>property org.xml.sax.driver not specified."
>If I specify a one-time value for this property using the -D flag
>with the Java interpreter, it works okay:
>

The SAX implementation you're using is buggy.
XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader() should fall back to a default
parser if the org.xml.sax.driver property is not set, but a lot of
parsers get this one wrong.
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