The Xerces-dev list is inactive, there are now specific mailing lists for Xerces-C and Xerces-J development and for Xerces-J users. Your question does not appear to be related to Xerces at all, however. As I understand it, you have a class name in a string and you want to create an instance of an object. That would be a general Java usage question.
The Java tutorial on reflection, particually http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/object/noarg.html and following, should answer your question. > -----Original Message----- > From: longinus ] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: string > > > in my dom tree i have a text element that contains the name > of class i need to instanciate.if i extract the name as a > string from the dom tree, how can i pass to the method, so > that the method gets the objects, or knows which object i am > passing it? >