XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 5:50 PM -0400 9/18/02, Henri Yandell wrote:


> Any chance of something with an easier to use format:
>
> such as:
>
> writer.openElement("document");
> writer.writeAttribute("name", "bob.text");
> writer.openElement("title").writeAttribute("value","Example").closeElement();
> writer.closeElement();
>
>
> It doesn't hog memory, it is more natural when outputting XML.

This is something quite different, possibly useful, but not really 
appropriate to what XOM is. This would stream XML output. It might 
even be able to check for well-formedness. However, it's write-only. 
Once you've written it the document is gone. You don't get it back. I 
can see how this would be useful for some applications that generate 
a lot of XML, and don't read in a lot of XML; but it's pretty 
orthogonal to the problems XOM is aimed at. I suspect it would work 
better as a separate project. Still, it is interesting...
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