XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

> Crimson seems to work fine with XOM when using validation, but if I 
> try  to use Crimson without validation I get the following error 
> (Mac OS X,  Java 1.4.1):

You can't use Crimson without validation, because Crimson provides no 
other way to resolve external entity references, which XOM requires. 
(Crimson does not support the 
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities feature). This 
is one of several defects in Crimson.

There are a lot of workarounds in XOM for Crimson bugs, and quite a 
few things I haven't figured out how to work around yet. Youu've just 
seen the tip of the iceberg. Crimson cannot run all the XOM unit 
tests successfully, and is not conformant to the XML 1.0 
specification. I strongly recommend you use Xerces instead.
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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