Lossless parsing

[Jochen Wiedmann <jo...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have a case where I want to apply slight changes to a document. The
most part of the document should be left unchanged, though. By
"unchanged" I mean *really* unchanged: In particular the documents
syntactical representation must not be changed.

A particular difficult part seems to be the documents internal subset.
Of course, I can attach a DeclHandler and all that stuff. However, the
internal subsets formatting (in particular white space characters) is
lost. (See

    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1144

on  that part.) An obvious idea would be to use the SAX parsers

    http://xml.org/sax/properties/xml-string

property, but that is not supported by Xerces.

Am I lost?


Jochen


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Re: Lossless parsing

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

>I have a case where I want to apply slight changes to a document. The
>most part of the document should be left unchanged, though. By
>"unchanged" I mean *really* unchanged: In particular the documents
>syntactical representation must not be changed.

Process it as text?

Seriously, if that's the level you're concerned with, I don't know of any
XML tools that will suit yoru needs.

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