XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Michael Kay wrote:


> Saxon now supports the JAXP 1.3 XPath API which should be thoroughly stable,
> though it may not give you as much control as you want.

What are the JDK requirements for JAXP 1.3? Will it run in Java 1.2? 1.1?

> Another option you have, of course, is to use the Saxon 6.5.3 XPath engine.
> That's competely stable and highly conformant, and you could fork it if you
> chose without serious risk. You could easily modify it to run directly on
> XOM without a mapping layer. It also has the advantage, for your purposes,
> of being far more self-contained than the 8.2 engine - In 8.2, XPath
> expressions and XSLT instructions compile into a single integrated AST, and
> you can no longer clearly separate the XPath runtime from the XSLT runtime. 

I've thought about that. Is 6.5.3 adaptable to other object models? The 
last time I looked at it, it seemed that Saxon requires a custom DOM 
that has been annotated with the information it needs. You couldn't just 
pass in a Xerces DOM or a Crimson DOM. Was that incorrect?

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