XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 8:35 AM -0800 2/7/03, dirk bergstrom wrote:


> xom looks very appealing, but i'm a bit leery of committing myself to
> something so new.  do y'all think that xom is ready for production use?

Probably not unless you're comfortable maintaining it yourself if necessary.

>  is
> the API stable?

No. There will be at least one method name change in the next 
release. There's also a likely additional method to be added to the 
Node class. Other problems may yet be discovered that require 
adjustment or modification.

>  is elharo committed to maintaining it for the next year?

Yes.

> is it buggy?

Not very. There are a few known bugs in namespaces that will be fixed 
shortly. There are probably other as-yet undiscovered bugs.

> will i be up the creek if elharo is hit by a bus?

Possibly. Depends on whether you're comfortable maintaining the code 
you need yourself. It's open source, and it shouldn't vanish as long 
as people are using it. Meanwhile, I'll try to stay out of the paths 
of oncoming buses. :-)

>  any
> gotcha's i should know about?

XOM has been carefully designed to be gotcha free. The only gotchas 
you're likely to encounter are those that are gotchas in XML itself, 
which XOM faithfully reproduces.
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