>docType is initialized to null first and later assigned the value of >doctype >within DocumentImpl::appendChild(doctype). Note that >DocumentImpl::appendChild() is resolved to NodeImpl::appendChild() which >in >turn calls DocumentImpl::insertBefore() to check if docType already exists >then do the assignment.
Okay, this makes sense. If I create a document programmatically and add a DOM_DocumentType to it, DOM_Document::getDoctype() returns the appropriate DOM_DocumentType object. However, DOM_Document::getDoctype() _always_ returns null for a document created by a parser. For example, given the following document personal.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE personnel SYSTEM "personal.dtd"> <personnel> .... </personnel> and the following sequence of calls: ... DOMParser parser; parser.setDoValidation(true); parser.parse(personal.xml); DOM_Document doc = parser.getDocument(); DOM_DocumentType doctype = doc.getDocumentType(); ... doctype is null (or rather, the underlying implementation is null). Is this the expected behaviour? If so, how can I access DocumentType? Note: the same behaviour occurs if I substitute SYSTEM with PUBLIC in the DOCTYPE declaration. Personal.xml and personal.dtd are both processed properly, their elements and attributes are correct and the DOM tree can be manipulated as expected, apart from the DOM_Document::getDocumentType() call. S.
