XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Francois Beausoleil scripsit:
> I would beg to differ.  Errors should be reserved for things which break
> the whole application.  When you receive an Error, we have a catastrophic
> failure and we cannot continue.

Shouldn't normally, rather than cannot, continue.

> If a document is malformed, the application can recover by rejecting the
> document and/or asking the user to correct the document.  Exceptions are
> more appropriate in this case.

This argument does not apply, and I am not intending to apply it, to parsing
exceptions.  It applies only to the descendants of XMLException.

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