XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I've made the initial changes necessary to implement xml:id support in 
CVS, though a little work remains to be done. It turns out to be 
trickier than expected, because you have to consider all the different 
ways an xml:id attribute can be created, including things like changing 
the name or namespace of an attribute that didn't use to be xml:id to 
xml:id. This is helped a little because XOM enforces the rule that the 
xml prefix must be bound to the http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace 
namespace. Therefore each method only needs to check the the qualified 
name or the local name and namespace URI, whichever is more convenient.

I decided that XOM would only autonormalize xml:id attributes when they 
come in from a parser. If autonormalization is not sufficient to turn an 
xml:id value into an NCName, the builder throws a ParsingException. 
Otherwise, if you try to pass a non-NCName to setValue on xml:id, or 
change a non-xml:id attribute whose value id a non-NCName to an xml:id, 
an exception is thrown. XOM does not verify, however, that these values 
are unique.


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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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