XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I've posted the latest alpha release of XOM 1.1 in the usual location:

http://www.xom.nu/unstable.html

The major change in this release is that the serializer no longer 
depends on IBM's ICU to encode data in Unicode normalization form C. 
Doubtless the code as it exists is not as fast as the ICU code used 
previously. It may well have undiscovered bugs (though it does pass all 
17,122 Unicode test cases). The primary advantage of using my own code 
here is:

1. Saving about 200K on the total size of the jars you need to distribute.

2. It now possible to run pretty much all of XOM in Java 1.4 and later 
without any 3rd party jars. junit.jar may be required, but only if 
you're using XOMTestCase, in which case you probably have JUnit 
somewhere already. In Java 1.3 and earlier, you will need a SAX parser 
and XSLT engine as well.

There are a few assorted bug fixes. Otherwise the only noticeable change 
is that XIncluder now makes some effort to use relative URLs for 
xml:base attributes it inserts.

This is probably the last feature release for 1.1. Getting normalization 
working wore me out, and I've got a lot of non-XOM related work that I 
have to focus on in the near future. For now I'm going to concentrate on 
testing, optimization, documentation, and packaging with an eye toward 
shipping 1.1. Once that's done, I can revisit some of the other 
requested features like catalog support for 1.2.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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