XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 9:13 PM +0200 9/29/03, Hallvard Trætteberg wrote:
> Elliotte,
>
> In the latest version of XOM you have made the copy method protected, so
> a class may control the class of its copies. Together with the
> NodeFactory this gives full control over instantiation of nodes. Almost,
> as I think the XIncluder class does not support a custom NodeFactory. In
> the XIncluder code, a Builder is created, but there is no way to pass in
> a NodeFactory. I believe it makes sense to add a NodeFactory argument to
> the resolve family of static methods in XIncluder, what do you think?

In principle, I agree. That does make sense at 
first glance. I just hadn't thought of it yet. 
I'll have to explore the code to see what this 
might entail. Should be doable. One thing that 
does worry me is that the implicit contract of 
node factory is that it will only be used for one 
document at a time. I'm not sure what will happen 
if it's being used for one included document 
before it's finished processing the including 
document.

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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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