XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 11:44 AM +0200 9/25/03, Hallvard Trætteberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the reasons I have not used XOM much is its lack of support for
> XPath (with Jaxen) and handling of special handling ID attributes.
> Nevertheless, XOM has many nice features so I decided to contribute
> these two things. I have
> - extended Jaxen with a DocumentNavigator for XOM (1.0d21) that passes
> all of Jaxen's test. I essentially ported JDOM's navigator.

Thanks for your effort and interest. This has 
been done before by Laurent Bihanic. Seee 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/xom-interest/2003-January/000271.html 
In my opinion, the proper place for such a class 
is in Jaxen, not XOM. You may wish to contribute 
it to the Jaxen project.

Whatever XPath API and engine is eventually 
chosen, XOM will not expose any public dependence 
on the engine. Much as the XSLT API completely 
hides the internal dependence on TrAX, so too 
will the XPath API hide the dependence on Jaxen 
(or any other engine I choose). This make XOM 
both simpler and more flexible.

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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