Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 86329 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2000 18:12:09 -0000 Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.30.28) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Oct 2000 18:12:09 -0000 Received: from brak ([216.60.111.107]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with SMTP id <0G2N00EVZ132OT@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:06:42 -0500 From: Eric Hodges Subject: RE: Question about document type nodes and JAXP In-reply-to: <39EDDD07.459A5C5E@us.ibm.com> To: xerces-j-dev@xml.apache.org, general@xml.apache.org Cc: xerces-dev@xml.apache.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > -----Original Message----- > From: Arnaud Le Hors [mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:25 PM > To: general@xml.apache.org > Cc: xerces-dev@xml.apache.org; xerces-j-dev@xml.apache.org > Subject: Re: Question about document type nodes and JAXP > > > Because there doesn't seem to be any way to specify a bootstrap > mechanism which is platform and language independent the DOM spec > doesn't define any. :-( You can't specify a factory in IDL? I don't know much about IDL, so I'm curious why you can't. Seems like it would just be another class with methods that create the stuff you need.