XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Plus, if there's a XOMParseException, I'd sort of expect to see a 
> generic XOMException superclass that covers all the exceptions in 
> XOM, but I can't really have that because of the distinction between 
> checked and runtime exceptions.

I guess it's too late for this, but is there any hope of my convincing
you that your unchecked exceptions should really be Errors?  Your
contract is to invoke an unchecked exception when the programmer has
blundered, rather than the data being bad.  This is precisely the
contract of Error.

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