XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> That's exactly the ugliness I'm trying to avoid: defining a new type 
> wrapper that has to be unwrapped before you can do anything with it. 
> XOM's been assiduously avoiding casts since day one. I have little 
> desire to reintroduce casting in the guise of function calls.

Fair enough, fair enough.  I was simply concerned to demonstrate that
type-safe union returns are feasible in Java, not that they're desirable
in XOM.  By all means limit the implementation to returning lists of nodes.

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