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Elliotte Rusty Harold resolved XERCESJ-37.
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Resolution: Fixed
seems to have been fixed long ago
> setIgnoringComments does not seem to work
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> Key: XERCESJ-37
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-37
> Project: Xerces2-J
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: JAXP (javax.xml.parsers)
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0 [beta 2]
> Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
> Reporter: Brent Boyer
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> 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.
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