| Introduction |

| The Xerces2 Java Parser 2.8.0 contains an implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Document Object Model Level 3 Load and Save Recommendations. To learn how to program with the DOM Level 3 see dom.DOM3 sample.

| Implementation of DOM Level 3 Core |

DOM Level 3 Core DOMConfiguration `parameters` supported are:

- error-handler [ DOMErrorHandler ]
- resource-resolver [ LSResourceResolver ]
- schema-type [ String ]
- schema-location [ String ]
- canonical-form [ false ]
- cdata-sections [ true/false ]
- comments [ true/false ]
- namespaces [ true/false ]
- entities [ true/false ]
- infoset [ true/false ]
- namespace-declarations [ true/false ]
- normalize-characters [ false ]
- split-cdata-sections [ true/false ]
- validate-if-schema [ true/false ]
- element-content-whitespace [ true ]
- datatype-normalization [ true/false ]
- validate [ true/false ] -- revalidation is supported only against XML Schemas. For more information, please refer to How to revalidate DOM in memory? .
- validate-if-schema [ true/false ]
- check-character-normalization [ false ]
- well-formed [ true/false ]
- psvi [ true/false ] -- (NON-DOM) setting the value of this parameter to true will include PSVI information in the DOM tree.

| Implementation of DOM Level 3 Load and Save |

Additional DOM Level 3 Load and Save DOMConfiguration `parameters` supported:

- charset-overrides-xml-encoding [ true/false ]
- disallow-doctype [ true/false ]
- ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations [ true ]
- supported-media-types-only [ false ]
- discard-default-content [ true/false ]
- format-pretty-print [ true/false ]
- xml-declaration [ true/false ]

Here is the list of DOM Level 3 Load and Save limitations:

- LSParser parserWithContext -- not supported.
- DOMImplementationLS MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS -- not supported.
- LSSerializer - the following parameters are not supported:

- normalize-characters [ true ]

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