XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> I'm not convinced this is on the right side of 80/20. Nor am I 
> convinced this is the right API. (Is validation always done via a 
> Builder? What about RELAX and Schematron?) If you can convince me of 
> both of these points, I might consider it post 1.0, but I might also 
> leave it as a third party opportunity.

I'm not convinced either that this is the right API, but do I think 
that in-memory validation is important and tricky/confusing enought to 
warrant some built-in help by XOM. How would suggest it should be done? 
My app would appreciate catching it's own bugs as early as possible, 
and validating before sending docs onto the network would help here.

BTW, I've heard (from far away) that, RELAX and Schematron, etc. can be 
done with SAX via some SAX Bridge, see

http://www.relaxng.org/
http://www.kohsuke.org/

Hence it might be a good idea to let the user pass a Builder on input, 
so the user can configure it as needed by whatever schema languages is 
in use, and XOM does not need to care.