Re: XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader()

Elliotte Harold wrote:

> The failure of the no-args version of XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader() 
> has long been a problem for users. Parser vendors are supposed to 
> rewrite this method so that it works with their parser. In practice they 
> don't. This patch fixes that problem in two ways:
> 
> 1. It modifies the JavaDoc to make it blindingly obvious that parser 
> vendors are expected to rewrite this method and rewrite the class.
> 
> 2. It changes the default implementation so that if the parser vendor 
> does not rewrite this method, and none of the usual mechanisms for 
> finding parsers succeed, then it attempts to load one of nine known 
> parser classes whose names are hard coded into the source. If the user 
> has some common parser somewhere in their classpath, this method will 
> now find it, even if no META-INFO or system properties have been set.

I'll add this one to the post-release queue as well.


Thanks,


David


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