Help! Failed to validate XML using setDocType on DOMParser

Question

Hi all:
I am trying to use an existing DTD to parse
an XML file, and I am using the setDocType
method on the DOM parser to do this:
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.setValidationMode(true);
parser.setDoctype(dtd);
parser.parse(reader); // reader contains XML stream
But it does not seems to validate the XML
document correctly. For example, if I have
an element Graph defined as:
<!ELEMENT Graph (Background,Title) >
In my XML, if I define Title element to come before the Background element, it does not give me any error:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Graph>
<Title>.....
<Background>....
</Graph>
It does catches other errors like undeclared attributes, however.
Anyone knows what might have cause this?
Thanks,
Chadwick.

Answer 1

You can try to set the following feature to 'true' for your SAXParser:
http://apache.org/xml/features/continue-after-fatal-error
At least Xerces supports this feature.