XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Henri Yandell <bayard AT generationjava.com>]

Fair point :)

I'll work at adding the xml-schema/dtd part to it so it can not only
protect against syntax errors but also protect for well-formedness.

Thanks,

Hen

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> 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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