Q&A
| Q1: | What's the purpose of the DOCTYPE statement in the XML file produced by the PropertyFileCreator application? |
| A1: | That's a reference to a document type definition (DTD), a file that defines the rules XML data must follow to be considered valid in its dialect.
If you load the web page referred to in that statement, http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd, you'll find references to each of the elements and attributes contained in the XML file produced by the Java 2 library's Properties class. Although Sun provides this DTD, Java's official documentation indicates that it shouldn't be relied upon when evaluating property configuration data. Parsers are supposed to ignore it. |
| Q2: | An XML file I want to load in a Java program makes use of indentation. ... |
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