XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve Loughran wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a w3c.dom.Document into a xom one, but need to
> pass in my own node factory.
>
> there isnt any option to pass one down, nor can I easily tack one in
> by a bit of subclassing, as the DomConverter doesnt use a node factory
> and doesnt have a method createNodeFactory() that I could have
> overridden.

DOMConverter in CVS now contains a couple of methods that will allow you 
to supply a NodeFactory when converting documents and document fragments 
from DOM to XOM.

public static Document convert(org.w3c.dom.Document domDocument, 
NodeFactory factory)
public static Nodes convert(org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment fragment, 
NodeFactory factory)

Please try this out and see if it works for you. Also, anyone else whose 
using the DOMConverter may want test their code with this to see if I 
accidentally broke it. The internal changes have been quite significant.

I'm also curious about thoughts on the API. One definite possibility is 
making both methods return a Nodes object rather than a document. As is, 
some of the trickier node factories can prevent the conversion by 
returning the wrong thing in the wrong place. However simple cases 
should work.

If this case had come up in the 1.0 time frame it might have convinced 
me to make the convert methods instance methods instead of static 
methods. However I'm hesitant to make that change now.

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