XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I am very pleased to announce XOM 1.0 Beta 1. You can download it 
from the usual location:

http://cafeconleche.org/XOM/

You should note that my criteria for entering beta is much stricter 
than most. In particular unlike some companies who shall remain 
nameless but who *release* major operating systems with thousands of 
known bugs, XOM Beta 1 has exactly *zero* known bugs. It is feature 
complete. All that remains to be done before final release is 
finishing the documentation and doing some minor code clean-ups. 
These include such housekeeping tasks as splitting long lines, spell 
checking the comments, and making sure the Javadoc is all valid 
XHTML. It may take a few months before I get all of this done, but 
none of it should have any affect on client code. Unless new bugs are 
uncovered, this may be the one and only beta release. I now believe 
XOM to be ready for serious, production use.

Beta 1 makes no backwards incompatible changes to the published API. 
Bug fixes since the final alpha include:

    * The XInclude test suite is loaded and run from the W3C CVS 
server if it's not installed locally. Mistakes in the test suite 
(mostly involving doucment type declarations) are corrected on the 
fly.

    *  Work-arounds for various JDK bugs that prevent round-tripping 
of some characters in Japanese encodings

    *  Work-arounds for bugs in some versions of Xalan, as well for 
bugs in the OASIS XSLT conformance test suite.

    * Improved compatibility with Java 1.5

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  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