XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Dan Diephouse wrote:
> Is there any interest in StAX support for XOM? I have StaxBuilder and 
> StaxSerializer classes.  In addition I have a class which turns an 
> Element into an XMLStreamReader. Only thing I'm really missing is a 
> XOMStreamWriter which builds a XOM tree from an XMLStreamWriter.

I've considered it. It's not high on my priority list, and probably 
won't get into 1.1, but if you've got something you'd like to 
contribute, we can talk. I have two main questions for this:

1. What's the use case? i.e. how do you justify the added complexity in 
XOM? There's a certain presumption against new features that needs to be 
overcome. If it could be demonstrated that StAX parsing/tree-building 
were noticeably faster than SAX parsing or that there were a lot of 
other StAX based APIs waiting to interoperate with XOM, this might make 
sense. So far I haven't seen either of those though.

2. What dependencies would this add to XOM? i.e. would it still be 
possible to build and run XOM in Java 1.2/1.3/1.4 if we added this?


--
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim