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> Why doesn't the Document Object Model have a createDocument > method to allow the creation of a new Document instance? > > I'd like to be able to build up a Document programmatically > and later save it to disk as an XML document. I can see that > the details of how a Document might be saved are implementation > specific, but surely the actual *creation* of a Document is > abstract enough to be included? The SAXON package includes an interface to construct a Document from an InputSource (defined as in SAX), and has drivers (implementations of this interface) for a number of DOM products including SUN, IBM, Docuverse, Oracle, and Datachannel. Yes it would be nice if there were a standard interface, but in the meantime you could try using the SAXON one. You can use it independently of the rest of SAXON. I realise this isn't exactly what you want because you want to create an empty document; but you could do this by starting from an InputSource with a minimal XML document. (A well-formed XML document, of course, always contains at least one element, so I can see products legitimately objecting to you creating a document that contains no elements). Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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