XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I have uploaded XOM 1.0d13 to the usual location:

http://cafeconleche.org/XOM/

I think this release is so much better than previous ones I strongly 
recommend everyone upgrade. More details on the page, but memory 
usage should have been cut in half or more for this release. In 
addition, it's probably a little bit faster. On the other hand, the 
implementation is a lot trickier now so please let me know if you 
notice any bugs.

Besides optimization, other changes include:

* EBCDIC serialization support (which was a royal pain due to bugs in 
Java's EBCDIC conversions)

* The arguments to insertChild (and checkInsertChild and 
checkRemoveChild) have been reversed. These methods are now:

public void insertChild(Node child, int position)
protected void checkInsertChild(Node child, int position)
protected void checkRemoveChild(Node child, int position)

* The removeChild methods now return the Node they remove:

public Node removeChild(int position)
public Node removeChild(Node child)

* The build() method that build a document by reading a string is now 
declared to throw an IOException like the other build() methods 
because an IOException can occur while parsing the external DTD 
subset.

* The equals() and hashCode() methods were removed from the 
XSLTransform class. They're probably not necessary, and their 
behavior was underspecified.

* Several additional methods in Element were marked final: 
getAttributeCount(), getNamespacePrefix(int index), removeChildren(), 
and getAttribute(int). Their previous non-finality was an oversight.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA