XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jan 12, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Watson, John wrote:

> Not sure whether to post this here, but I was encouraged to do so by 
> the NUX
> home page.

Yep, this is the right place to ask.

> Firstly, I'm very interested in XOM, particularly as it offers
> very strong XML conformance together with a small memory footprint.  
> The
> particular feature I require is XPath support, and I've seen the recent
> postings - I'm very pleased that this seems likely to be a priority 
> for a
> future release.
>
> In the meantime, I thought I'd use it to help me get some practical
> experience of XQuery and so I turned to NUX.  I have problems in 
> running my
> first small test program because it can't find the new DOM level 3
> org.w3c.domTypeInfo class.  I am using java 1.4 together with an 
> over-ridden
> version of Xerces 2.5.0 and Xalan in the lib/endorsed directory of the 
> jre.
>
>
>
> Any ideas about how to get round this would be gratefully accepted.  
> (I'm
> not in a position to switch to java 1.5 just yet)

Ah, I haven't seen this before in my testing. Without seeing a 
stacktrace, it sounds like a JAXP-1.3 classpath or xerces version 
problem. Try putting the JAXP-1.3 jars (jaxp-api.jar and dom.jar) from 
https://jaxp.dev.java.net/ onto the classpath. If that doesn't fix it 
try using the xerces-2.6.2 jar.

[I guess the xerces folks will bundle an Apache licensed JAXP-1.3 with 
a future xerces-2.7.0]

Wolfgang.