XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> If one wanted to recreate the exact same XOM document, preserving  
> additional namespace declarations "as is" is key.

What constitutes the "exact same document" is a matter of some debate. 
XOM is never going to provide exact handling of white space inside tags, 
character references, the formatting of the DTD, and so forth; and I 
don't think you really want it to. Once you've ruled out the idea of 
byte-per-byte equivalence, I doubt any one model will satisfy everyone 
perfectly. XOM very closely follows the XPath 1.0 data model, with a few 
small exceptions. (XOM does provide access to the DOCTYPE declaration 
that XPath doesn't. It also makes some effort to maintain base URIs.) I 
agree with Michael Kay that the XPath data model is more sensible than 
the full Infoset model. However, these are hardly the only two such 
models; and others are possible.


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