XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I've released XOM 1.0d6 at the usual location:

The major additions to this release are two new packages that offer 
partial but significant support for XInclude and Canonical XML.

XInclude is missing XPointer support but is otherwise up-to-date with 
the latest working draft, including support for fallbacks and IRIs, 
features my previous XInclude processors for SAX, DOM, and JDOM don't 
yet have. The XInclude support was aided by the addition of a new 
NodeList class that will likely be an important component of both 
XPath and XSLT support going forward.

Canonical XML is fully supported for complete documents, modulo bugs. 
I have not yet added support for node-set input. That will take some 
thought.

This release makes very limited backwards incompatible changes to the 
API. (A few formerly public methods in Serializer are now protected.) 
Almost all code that previously compiled and ran with 1.0d4 and 1.0d5 
should still compile and run. Other new features in the API in this 
release include:

* Namespace URIs must now be absolute URI references
* Element.toXML now generates empty-element tags for empty elements
* Serializer has four new protected methods to provide subclasses 
with more access to the underlying OutputStream:

protected final void writePCDATA(java.lang.String text) throws IOException
protected final void writeAttributeValue(java.lang.String value) 
throws IOException
protected final void writeMarkup(java.lang.String text) throws IOException
protected final void breakLine() throws IOException

In addition, several bugs were fixed:

* Fixed TextWriter bug that prevented the line separator from being changed
* Fixed a bug that allowed the namespace URI of a prefixed element to 
be changed to the empty string.
* Fixed a bug that allowed the prefix of an element to be changed to 
something that conflicts with one of its attributes or additional 
namespace declarations
* Fixed a bug that prevented the detach() method from working on leaf nodes
* Fixed a bug pointed out by Laurent Bihanic in 
getNamespaceURI(String prefix) that failed to return namespace URIs 
from more than one level up in the hierarchy
* Fixed a cosmetic bug in the handling of nbsp in ISO-8859-11 Thai
* Relative URLs in system identifiers for DTDs are now resolved 
against the base URI of the document specified in the builder instead 
of the current working directory. (I thought the InputSource systemID 
should have taken care of this, but apparently it doesn't. This may 
be a Xerces bug.)



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