XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["O'Brien-Strain, Eamonn" <eob AT exch.hpl.hp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo AT metalab.unc.edu]

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> Sparta appears to be an XML 1.0, pre-namespaces API. It basically 
> ignores namespaces.

Yes, this is a fair characterization.  I should put something like it clearly 
in the documentation.

> They can be treated as normal attributes, and the 
> namespace handling logic can be rolled into application code. This is 
> essentially the SAX1/DOM1 approach. But that's really painful, which 
> is why we have SAX2 and DOM2.

Yep.  I should also put something in the document that says something like: 
"If your application cares about namespace URIs, Sparta is probably not 
suitable.  Instead you should look at XOM or a W3C-compliant package (such as 
the Thermopylae wrapper around Sparta)."

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Eamonn O'Brien-Strain 
HP Labs 
eob AT hpl.hp.com