On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Alex Neth wrote: > > The DocumentBuilder API is part of the Sun API, whereas the DOMParser is > proprietary to Xerces. > > I was just wondering why this class exists when it is redundant.
DocumentBuilder is part of JAXP, a standard API for XML parsing. The idea is that if you write your code using JAXP, then you can drop any JAXP compliant parser (such as xerces, or the reference JAXP implementation from Sun) into the right place in your classpath, and it'll just work. Ian -- Ian Roberts, Software Engineer DecisionSoft Ltd. tel: +44-1865-203192 http://www.decisionsoft.com
