XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Kevin Herrboldt <kevin AT puppethead.com>]

On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 12:17 US/Central, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
wrote:

> OK. It looks like XOM resolves external entities regardless of the 
> setting of http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities so 
> I've added some special case code to handle that. The next release 
> should allow you to build with Crimson without validating. However, 
> the canonicalizer is still broken due to Crimson white space handling 
> errors, and thus the unit tests fail. I don't see any easy way to work 
> around that, I'm afraid.

Most excellent. I think supporting Crimson as well as possible can only 
help the adoption of XOM, since XOM becomes a simple drop-in package to 
add. I hate the giant size of Xerces, so I'm avoiding it.

Why wasn't Sun smart and install Crimson (and other add-ons) as 
extensions instead of putting them into classes.jar where they can't be 
upgraded? Blah.