XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

The nux-1.0rc2 release has been uploaded to http://dsd.lbl.gov/nux/

Nux is a small, natural, straightforward and surprisingly effective 
open-source extension of the XOM and Saxon XML libraries.

Changelog:

	• 	DOM Level 3 API (dom3-api.jar) is now also bundled (required by 
Saxon >= 8.2 on JDK < 1.5)
	• 	XQuery/XPath: now accepts any XOM Node as contextNode and as 
variables, not just a ParentNode. A variable can now also be bound to a 
node list (i.e. a XOM Nodes object). This enables to pass the output of 
a query as input into another query.
	• 	net.sf.saxon.xom.DocumentWrapper: id() function now finds first 
rather than last element in invalid documents that have multiple 
elements with the same ID. Performance is also improved via a hash 
index.
	• 	XQueryUtil: added normalizeTexts() for fully standards-compliant 
XPath and XQuery semantics in certain rare use cases.
	• 	XQueryUtil: added efficient convenience method "public static Nodes 
xquery(Node contextNode, String query)".
        •       XOMUtil.toByteArray(): more efficient implementation
	• 	StreamingPathFilter: made checked exception into an unchecked 
exception.
        •       Existing client code continues to run unchanged.

Cheers,
Wolfgang.