XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> You can't create a DOM element without creating  DOM document, at 
> least not within DOM. In DOM every element has a document object, and 
> cannot be disassociated from that document. I suppose it might be 
> possible to change a single DOM element to a single XOM element, but 
> the reverse is not possible, within the limits of DOM. (You could use 
> implementation specific classes, but it's ugly and non-portable, and 
> generally breaks every time the DOM vendor updates their 
> implementation.) How are you getting elements without documents 
> anyway?

My idea would be that if you get a DOM, you might want to find
the interesting elements thereof and then construct XOM Elements
out of them (by deep copy, of course) without having to convert
the whole DOM.Document.

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