The Xerces2 Java XML Parser 2.12.2 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.

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 only supported against XML Schemas and DTDs. 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.

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 ]