XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I am pleased to announce the release of XOM 1.0d23. You can download 
it from the usual location:

http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/

This is the *LAST CALL* development release of XOM 1.0.  The next 
release will be 1.0 alpha 1, at which point I will declare API freeze 
and rule out gratuitous, backwards incompatible changes in the API 
until at least 2.0 (at some point in the indefinite future). If there 
are any method names or signatures that bother you in XOM, now is the 
time to let me know.  I do plan some future releases, 1.0.1, 1.1, 
1.2, etc. to add features and improve performance. However, I don't 
want to change the existing API after alpha 1 without a very good 
reason.

There are several big changes in this release. Most notably, the 
various makeNode() methods in the NodeFactory class all return Nodes 
objects. This means a factory can replace one node type with a 
different node type (e.g. changing elements into attributes and vice 
versa) or replace a single node with several nodes.

IllegalDataException and its subclasses have getData and setData 
methods to get and set the exact text that caused the exception. 
Subclasses include IllegalNameException, IllegalTargetException, and 
IllegalCharacterDataException. IllegalCharacterDataException is now 
used where IllegalDataException was used previously.

NamespaceException has been broken up. IllegalNameException is used 
for problems with a namespace prefix. MalformedURIException is used 
for problems with a namespace URI. NamespaceConflictException, a 
subclass of WellformednessException, is used for cases where 
attributes, elements, and/or additional namespace declarations have 
conflicting bindings for the same prefix.

Support for the November 2003 Working Draft syntax of XInclude, 
including the xpointer, accept, accept-charset, and accept-language 
attributes. Documents will need to be rewritten to use the new 
syntax. In keeping with the terminology in the new working draft, 
MissingHrefException has been renamed NoIncludeLocationException. 
CircularIncludeExcepion has been renamed InclusionLoopException. The 
methods that resolve Nodes objects have been marked private.

Added support for GB18030 (Chinese) and ISO-8859-11/TIS-620 (Thai) 
encoding on output (requires Java 1.4)

All legacy JDOM code has been replaced. The XOM code base is now 
completely independent code. (There never was much JDOM code in the 
first place, just parts of the Verifier class, but these parts have 
now all been replaced with different, faster  algorithms based on 
table lookup.)

Other changes are listed on the web page. Happy hacking!

--

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml            
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA