XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> At 5:35 PM -0700 7/17/03, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> 
> >What's the reason the DOMConverter.convert(xyz) methods are private?
> >It would be handy for my app to be able to convert a DOM element 
> >into a XOM element, without going through the trouble of making new 
> >documents and passing them to the public methods that work on entire 
> >documents.
> 
> 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.

So create a internal DOM document, then create the other node with it, and
return the node (which is associated with a DOM document). Users are still
going to have to call "importNode" to get any translated node into another
document.

Or better yet just have the methods that also take a DOM Document as
a parameter.

Brad