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. :-( I've made a proposal to fix this at least for Java in DOM Level 3. In the meantime, you have to use some "proprietary" call.
Sean Kelly wrote: > > Document toss = new org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl(); > DOMImplementation impl = toss.getImplementation(); You may as well simply do the following: DOMImplementation impl = org.apache.xerces.dom.DOMImplementationImpl.getDOMImplementation(); I wish JAXP addressed this problem but it doesn't either. :-( -- Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group
