An instance of a class that implements org.w3c.dom.Document is the factory for creating other nodes. If there's some reason that you need to / want to examine and do further processing on the nodes as they're constructed you can always register an LSParserFilter [1] with the parser.
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/w3c/dom/ls/LSParserFilter.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org Vlad Arkhipov <arhi...@dc.baikal.ru> wrote on 02/08/2011 05:28:19 AM: > I wonder why http://apache.org/xml/properties/dom/document-class-name > property refers to a class name but not to a class factory? It's > common when you need some external information while parsing the > document. For example, when you are building a DOM for HTML page > it's necessary to have a reference to a window of this document. You > may also need factories for creating elements of your Document. Now > you can't set Document's properties before parsing is not done.
