XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I have posted the third alpha release of XOM in the usual location:

http://cafeconleche.org/XOM/

1.0a3 makes no backwards incompatible changes to the published API. 
It adds one new protected method. Changes since the previous release 
include:

    * The Element copy constructor and copy methods are no longer 
recursive, so they shouldn't cause stack overflows in deep documents. 
This necessitated adding a protected shallowCopy() method that can be 
used to create an instance of a subclass of Element. Overriding this 
is preferred to overriding copy() when one wishes to maintain the 
objects' types after a copy.

    * The getBaseURI()  method is also no longer recursive.

    * The W3C XML Schema Language and WML and HTML DOMs have been 
removed from the bundled version of Xerces to save space.

    * XOM now uses character references only when necessary for all 
encodings supported by the local virtual machine. However, this may 
be quite a bit slower than the explicitly supported encodings like 
UTF-8 and the ISO-8859 character sets. Measurements remain to be 
performed.

   * XOM no longer uses its own custom parser configuration. This 
should make it more compatible with more versions of Xerces.

If noone notices any major problems with this release, I'll probably 
announce it on Cafe con Leche tomorrow.

--

  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