XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> 
> What would Saxon do if a SAXSource were passed as the value 
> argument to 
> Transformer's setParameter method?

Any JAXP Source object that can be supplied as the first argument of
transform() can also be supplied as the value argument of setParameter().
> 
> What would Saxon do if a DOM Node, NodeList, or NodeIterator 
> were passed 
> as the argument to Transformer's setParameter method?

That's in transition. In the past, Saxon has had knowledge of DOM built-in.
Because of the fiasco of DOM incompatibility from JDK 1.4 to 1.5, I'm taking
that out, and handling DOM (like XOM and JDOM) more at arm's length. The
situation is now that DOM Node and NodeList will be recognized provided that
the DOM object model manager can be loaded, which in turn depends on what's
on the classpath.

Michael Kay