XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com wrote:

> Does that mean, that Nux 1.0 won't get a final release until 1.1 is
> finalized? Or what is the implication of this?

rc3 addresses everything I had on the TODO list, except that if a 
saxon-8.2.1 release would happen in the near future I'd update to that. 
rc3 is basically nux-1.0 unless a major problem is reported.

> I actually think that if people are using Nux, it's because XPath in 
> XOM
> is insufficient. Otherwise they'd just be using XOM, no?
> Personally I wouldn't mix'n'match. I'd either use XPath in XOM 1.1
> exclusively, or I'd use Nux exclusively for XPath.

If you don't need XOM's XPath, simply ignore its Node.query() methods. 
This won't break anything or throw any exception due to a missing jaxen 
jar file since I applied the internal non-intrusive "5 minute 
indirection patch" that Elliotte somehow can't be bothered with. 
Personally I don't have any use for XOM's XPath either, but I'm always 
pro-choice. The assumption is that others might well want XOM's XPath, 
even in its current CVS form, if only for comparison/evaluation 
purposes, and so its good to include that.

So nux-1.0 will include xom-1.0 plus

+ DTD subset fixes (fairly important for those who want to be sure that 
a document read, modified and written with XOM can actually be parsed 
again)
+ non-intrusive 1.1 CVS Node.query() methods (for the curious 
experimentalist)
+ the usual XSLTransform patch + Text + Verifier performance patches 
(which so far haven't been addressed by Elliotte either). See the 
changelog.

Note that this excludes the new Canonicalizer and xml:id features 
(nothing wrong with them, but probably not yet stable).

Wolfgang.

> Nils
>
> xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 01/22/2005 03:21:32 PM:
>
> > It doesn't depend on 1.1 features, but it's good to pick up the DTD
> > subset fixes that went in since 1.0. I also think that folks 
> > interested
> > in Nux are probably also interested in XOM XPath, and vice versa, so
> > for those who'd like to try it, it's good to have that in there as
> > well. (Obviously myself I'm not one them)
> >
> > Wolfgang.
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> >
> > > Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> > >
> > > > nux-1.0rc3 has been uploaded to http://dsd.lbl.gov/nux/
> > > > Changelog:
> > > >     ?     XOM nomore requires Jaxen jar file unless really needed
> > > > (soft  dependency).
> > >
> > > Does NUX now depend on XOM 1.1?
> >
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