XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 12:18 PM -0500 9/25/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

> Or take the JDOM approach and throw a exception for any operation that follows
> except for one's that would make it a well-formed document.

I considered that early on and rejected it. A Document object should 
represent a well-formed XML document, period. Clients should be able 
to rely on that.

What I'm really looking for is a solution that will cleanly solve the 
use-case while hiding the implementation ugliness inside the API. I 
could live with a malformed document or one with a fake root, 
provided there was no way to actually get a reference to such a thing.
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