Docs do not explain how to set properties

The docs do explain which properties should be set and roughly where:

Finding Property name definitions

Woodstox-specific property names are defined in 2 classes:

• WstxInputProperties (to use via XMLInputFactory)
• WstxOutputProperties (to use via XMLOutputFactory)

As with all properties, configuration is done using methods XMLInputFactory.setProperty() and XMLOutputFactory.setProperty().

from https://medium.com/@cowtowncoder/configuring-woodstox-xml-parser-woodstox-specific-properties-1ce5030a5173

but it does not explain how do actually do this (in my case on Jackson’s XMLMapper).

After searching through the interfaces for quite some time I found a solution I assume to work, it would be nice if this could be added to the documentation for easier access:

XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
xmlMapper.getFactory().getXMLInputFactory().setProperty(WstxInputProperties.P_MAX_ATTRIBUTE_SIZE, Integer.MAX_VALUE);

Setting the value via system properties doesn’t seem to work (which was my first assumption).

[cowtowncoder]

I did change README of xml module:

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml/

… oh. But I change 2.9 branch and hadn’t merged to master. Changed now. So that’s why confusion. Thank you for pointing this out.

[ST-DDT]

Oh. I haven’t noticed that. Then maybe add a few lines that explain how to configure those factories and how to set them to/use them with the XmlMapper?