Who's right - JDK 1.6 stax or WoodStox?

Question

Hi all...
I have a serious problem with switching between aforementioned technologies and I'm confused which one works properly. My case is easy - I have XML that starts like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE field-specification SYSTEM "http://xxx/dtd/field-specification.dtd">And I have following naive code:
XMLInputFactory xmlif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
XMLStreamReader reader = xmlif.createXMLStreamReader(sourceReader);Now using WoodStox it ends like:
com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: xxx
     at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwFromIOE(StreamScanner.java:650)
     at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1071)
     at sk.bgs.swift.XMLUtils.prepareXmlReader(XMLUtils.java:159)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: xxxAnd I need following line to tell WoodStox "please, ignore that DTD":
xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.SUPPORT_DTD, false);Now it works... if I switch to JDK 1.6, it works. If I drop Woodstox from classpath, using JDK 1.6 stax impl it stops to work with:
javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[2,10]
Message: DOCTYPE is disallowed when the feature "http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl" set to true.So these versions are mutualy exclusive and I can't just compile it once. Not to mention that running the original example (usable with JDK 1.6 Stax Impl but with Woodstox in classpath) on 1.6 ends with stupid messages:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause
     at java.lang.Throwable.initCause(Throwable.java:320)
     at com.ctc.wstx.compat.Jdk14Impl.setInitCause(Jdk14Impl.java:70)This hardly tells you anything and it's also hard to claim that it is working like on JDK 1.5. ;-) However - here is final version of the code - that works in 1.5 with Woodstox and in 1.6 with both:
XMLInputFactory xmlif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
if (xmlif.getClass().getName().equals("com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory")) {
  xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.SUPPORT_DTD, false);
XMLStreamReader reader = xmlif.createXMLStreamReader(sourceReader);Ok, this is first story... the second one is also interesting. I have line in XML like this:
<prim name="y">[-A-Z0-9.,()/='+:?!"%&amp;*; ]</prim>Now Woodstox has really no problem with it while with JDK 1.6 implementation just doesn't want to eat those entities and I'm pretty out of options how to make THIS working in both implementations. Not to say that I'm not sure which one is right.
But in this second case Woodstox is winner for me from logical point of view. Why is that & interpreted? Why reader.getText() returns only string up to % and stops there? There is no exception in implementation - of course - just my logic stops to work.
Have anyone run into similar problems?
Thanks for any hints and tips how to make such a things work in both cases.
Virgo47

Answer 1

First thing: what does this mean for JDK 1.6? Will it be changed in some update?
Second thing: Yes, I can. ;-)
<prim name="y">[-A-Z0-9.,()/='+:?!"%&amp;*; ]</prim>I have a reader positioned just at the start of the text that is between the tags. Now reader.getText() Woodstox returns the string all way to the last ] included - like expected. Now I'm not really sure if it changes that entity to actual & sign, but that doesn't matter now. Problem with JDK 1.6 is that it returns only string ended with % and when I suggest the reader that I want to read end tag, it fails - because it is not positioned on the </prim> yet.
I don't know which impl is right thou. Woodstox is more logical for me.