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Re: Adding standalone="yes" to XML document

• To: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Subject: Re: Adding standalone="yes" to XML document
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:26:22 -0600
• Cc: Bhargav Bharath <xmlbar@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> of "Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:26:42 +0200." <3F3BB842.1010701@e...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> >>I am on the process of creating an XML document using JDOM API's for which 
> >>need to add standalone="yes". How can this be done ?
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with JDOM, but I don't know of any XML "API" that allows such 
> > fine control over the XML declaration.  Your best bet is probably a text 
> > processing step after serialization from DOM that changes the declaration 
> > according to your needs.  Since you'll probably have firm control over the 
> > documents you're producing, you might be able to control the trickier aspects 
> > of this.
> 
> PerlSAX2 makes that information part of the start_document() call, and SAX 
> writers should honour it. I suppose you could get Java SAX writers to honour the 
> is-standalone property?

Yes.  SAX2's LexicalHandler includes a "standalone" flag, so if one uses SAX 
as an *output* format you should have control over that declaration.  My 
mistake (I wasn't thinking broadly enough, even though I've used SAX for 
output a air bit before).

So I guess the solution might indeed be for the OP to switch to a Java SAX 
writer.  Might be more efficient, too.


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