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XDK: DocumentBuilderFactory does not Honor setIgnoringComments() (Doc ID 1379629.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 30, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle XML Developers Kit - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

The DocumentBuilderFactory created by JXDocumentBuilderFactory does not honor the setting setIgnoringComments(true). The code below will print a comment node if run with xmlparserv2.jar in the classpath.

Example code - XMLParserTest.java:

1. Compile the code using:


Sample Output:

Factory=oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilderFactory@35d9dc39
Builder=oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilder@2a0ecd7e
- Item:test=null
- Item:#comment= comment

Cause

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