XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic AT atosorigin.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 10:33 AM +0200 9/19/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:
>
> >  - Document portions: JDOM uses Lists to "model" document portions. 
> > Wouldn't XOM need a DocumentFragment node class, for example as a 
> > receptacle for XSLT result trees?
>
> A good point. I'll need to think about this further. I do suspect that 
> when I get serious about XPath and XSLT I'll need a generic NodeList, 
> probably comatose and possibly read-only. That may serve this use-case 
> as well, but we'll need to explore it more deeply.

Namespaces, Elements and Attributes classes are actually specific types of 
DocumentFragment. With such a container class, the getFirst/NextSibling 
navigation model could also be applied to Attribute and Namespace.

Note that the XPath model will force you to add a Namespace node.

Laurent