XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Michael Kay wrote:

> You can classify XQuery as an unfinished specification if you like, but XSLT
> has been around for a few years...

Yes, but XOM already does XSLT. Remember replacing XOM's internals also 
doesn't qualify as an acceptable use case. Alternate implementations of 
XOM have been an explicit non-goal since day 1, thanks to all the 
trouble I saw that possibility causing DOM and JDOM (the latter of which 
doesn't actually enable alternate implementations, but still managed to 
get it itself sidetracked for over a year on that issue).

Once XQuery is final, I'll need to consider whether or not that 
qualifies, or whether that needs this functionality. Isn't the namespace 
axis optional and even deprecated in XQuery?

It's also possible that if I like the final version of XQuery enough I 
might wrap it into XOM somehow instead of enabling external 
implementations. Either way, this is not a decision I will make until 
there's a released specification I can depend on.

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