XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 6:46 PM +0000 10/22/03, billfly3 AT comcast.net wrote:
> ERH,
>    Please, rollout XOM 1.0.  I would like to utilize it for a 
> production project, but I am probably going to resort to JDOM, 
> because it is still a beta version.  It concerns me when the XOM 
> samples don't compile, because the insert API has been changed to 
> put the position number as the second parameter and the samples 
> still have the position number as the first parameter.

If something in the nu.xom.samples package doesn't compile, that's a 
bug. PLease send more specifics. If you're talking about the 
tutorial, then final documentation will be fixed between beta and 
release.

The 1.0 API is very close to frozen. I only have a few potentially 
breaking changes left to consider, and these are in fairly advanced 
parts of the API. They shouldn't affect anybody who isn't subclassing 
NodeFactory or Serializer. I expect to declare XOM alpha (tentative 
API freeze) in the near future.

JDOM calls itself a beta, but it's current state isn't really any 
more frozen than XOM's. There'll be significant changes between JDOM 
beta 9 and beta 10, some of which are visible in the JDOM CVS now. 
Beyond that I don't know where JDOM is going.

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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