XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

> Does anyone have sample code to convert XOM <--> JDOM, and likewise 
> XOM <--> Saxon?
> I need this to use some of the functionality XOM does not (yet) provide.

Given that XOM and JDOM are currently at about equal states of 
development, I don't see a lot of need to go from JDOM to XOM and 
vice versa. Pick one or the other; or just stream the XML as text out 
using a Serializer/Outputter. Since the JDOM API is, if anything, 
less stable than XOM's at this point in time, I don't want to commit 
to supporting anything based on that. (Beta 9 of JDOM just made a 
huge change that broke everything. Bleah. Though a lot of the changes 
that were made  like the ParentNode interface make JDOM a lot more 
XOM like.  And in the past when ever I've predicted when JDOM is 
likely to be finished, I've been off by years.)

What do you need to do with Saxon? Saxon is bundled with XOM, and is 
the engine behind the nu.xom.xslt package. Hmm, I'm not sure how easy 
it is to swap in other TrAX compliant engines. I should check that 
out. However, it should be possible to use Saxon via XSLTransform. If 
you want to do more with Saxon than that, you'll soon discover that 
the API isn't really intended to be used. Michael Kay told me as much 
when I started asking him questions about it for Processing XML with 
Java. If XPath is what you want, look at Jaxen 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