Jagadish, XML parsers are required to check well-formedness [1]. Xerces provides no way to disable it. Even the DOM L3 Load and Save specification [2] forbids it.
Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-conformance [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/w3c/dom/ls/LSParser.html#getDomConfig() Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Vemugunta, Jagadish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/17/2008 01:01:55 PM: > Hi, > > I want to disable "well-formed" check using either DOM/SAX parser? > Is there a way to do it with Xerces? > > The DomConfiguration has the well-formed disable option, but seems > to be not working. > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/DOMConfiguration.html > > Can anybody help on this? > > Thanks, > Jagadish