Loose XML parser interface. The parser can parse directly into the DOM, or it can be used as a SAX parser.
Loose XML is forgiving for some common lazy cases, e.g. the following is allowed in LooseXml, but not XML
<elt attr=1/>
Also, Loose XML adds a convenient shortcut that's standard SGML but not XML. <foo/any text/>
is equivalent to <foo>any text</foo>
To parse a file into a DOM Document use
Document doc = new LooseXml().parseDocument("foo.xml");
To parse a string into a DOM Document use
String xml = "<top>small test</top>"; Document doc = new LooseXml().parseDocumentString(xml);
To parse a file using the SAX API use
LooseXml xml = new LooseXml(); xml.setContentHandler(myContentHandler); xml.parse("foo.xml");