XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 7/7/05, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Steve Loughran wrote:
> > Has anyone done a SOAP stack w/ Xom yet? If so, how did they deal with 
> > MTOM?
> >
> 
> Not to my knowledge. 

there will be one in a CVS repository by the end of the week

> MTOM does not appear to be XML. You could probably
> write an MTOM parser that generated a XOM Document object, but a better
> solution might be to not use MTOM in the first place. 

Agreed. A better solution would be for XML parsers to be able to
handle arbitrary large incoming data by letting you provide a factory
for storing big values that could be used to stream to a cache. It
would be more general purpose.

> Hell, the best
> solution is probably not to use SOAP in the first place.

aah, we arent going to go there :)