Details
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Bug
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Status: Open
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Resolution: Unresolved
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2.0.0 [beta 2]
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None
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Operating System: All
Platform: All
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3503
Description
The setIgnoringComments method of DocumentBuilderFactory does not seem to work!
First, it is a little unclear exactly what this method is supposed to do. The
skimpy javadocs simply state:
"Specifies that the parser produced by this code will ignore comments"
Well, what does "ignore comments" PRECISELY mean?
I ASSUME that it means that whenever the parser hits a comment in the xml
document, it will ignore it as if it were never in the document.
Consider this document fragment:
<someElement>
blah blah blah
<!-- comment, should be ignored -->
more blahs
</someElement>
If my interpretation of "ignoring comments" is correct, then the <someElement>
tag should have precisely 1 child Node, a Text node to be specific.
If you adopt a slightly looser interpretation of "ignore comments", then maybe
the parser might initially produce 2 child Text Nodes for <someElement>. In
this case, if you call on someElement's normalize method when working with the
DOM view of the document, it should coalesce the 2 child Text nodes into 1.
In reality, I see neither of the above behaviors. Instead, all 3 child Nodes of
the original document are present in the DOM view (a Text Node, then Comment
Node, then the final Text Node). Here, I am using the default parser (i.e.
Xerces 2.0.0 beta 2).
I assume that the above behavior is a bug.
Regardless of whether or not it is a bug, the javadocs for the method need
considerable more fleshing out.