XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 1:04 PM -0400 9/4/04, John Cowan wrote:

> I'm stunned that you do this.  It would seem so straightforward to
> use SAXConverter, souped up a bit to make it an XMLReader rather than
> just a ContentHandler.  (If you remember, I suggested a while back
> that SAXConverter produce an XMLReader.)

It was a quick hack that worked well enough that nobody's noticed. I 
do need to fix it. However, it's not nearly as trivial to implement 
on top of SAXConverter as you might think. JDOM's had big problems 
doing this because of the underspecified nature of TrAX, and I'm 
still not sure their code actually works in all circumstances.

I've got a preliminary implementation of this idea,  but right now 
it's throwing an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException somewhere deep in 
Xalan's internals. I'm not sure how easy this is going to be to fix.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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