XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I've posted beta 7 of XOM 1.0:

http://www.xom.nu/

This is the first release candidate. There are still a few open issues 
with regard to error handling in XInclude that require clarification 
from the XInclude working group. If they decide that how XOM currently 
behaves is correct, then XOM 1.0 is essentially complete. If they decide 
to require different behavior a few changes may yet need to be made.

Changes in this release include:

    * Builder is considerably more robust against buggy parsers. It 
converts all runtime exceptions thrown by such a parser (including XOM 
XMLExceptions thrown by a NodeFactory) into ParsingExceptions. It uses a 
verifying factory for Saxon 7's AElfred derivative.

    * Comment data is now allowed to begin with a hyphen.

    * XIncluder treats bad encoding attributes as fatal errors

    * Various optimizations have sped up a lot of common operations 
including getValue(), toXML(), DOM and SAX conversion, canonicalization, 
and XSL transformation by roughly a factor of two.

    * The zip archives and CVS no longer contain files with names that 
are problematic on Windows.

    * The manifest file is now versioned.

    * In keeping with the recommendation in RFC2396bis that "For 
consistency, URI producers and normalizers should use uppercase 
hexadecimal digits for all percent-encodings", XOM now uses uppercase 
percent encodings for base URIs. There may still be a few places where 
lower case escapes are used. Holler if you spot any.

    * Fixed bug where base URIs were not encoded in UTF-8 on all 
platforms. Mac OS X 10.3 was the particular offender here. Surprisingly 
the problem did not manifest on Mac OS X 10.2.

Please check this out and let me know if there are any major problems 
before I announce it more broadly, probably on Monday.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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