XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> If a user doesn't call XOM XSLT or call the NFC normalizer he/she 
> doesn't need the relevant jars either.

The difference is that nothing else in XOM calls normalizer or XSLT 
except the normalizer and XSLT. At the moment, that's true of XPath too, 
but it may not stay that way for long. Other methods in XOM may well 
develop an internal dependence on XPath. Using XPath would certainly 
make the XInclude code saner.

If that turns out not to be true when I'm closer to releasing XOM 1.1, 
then I'll consider more indirection, but right now it doesn't seem like 
a high priority, especially since I may yet throw it all out and start 
over.

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