XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Ed Davies wrote:
> XOM includes a group of ancillary files which can be used instead
> of the XML stuff in the JDK.  These include xalan.jar, xercesImpl.jar
> and xml-apis.jar.  They're not needed with Java 1.4 but are "quite a
> bit faster and less buggy than the ones bundled with the JDK" so
> I used them.
>
> I just put them in lib/ext with the xom-1.1.jar file.
>
> This turns out to be a bad idea as they seem to break Eclipse.  It
> fails with error messages about org/apache/xml/serializer/TreeWalker.
> Now I've removed those files it seems to be working OK.

It's probably an incompatibility between different versions of Xerces. 
Can you be specific about the error messages?

> This is with JDK 1.5.0_04, XOM 1.1, Eclipse 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 (I
> upgraded to see if that fixed things before working out what the
> real problem area was) under Ubuntu 5.04.

FYI, the parser in JDK 1.5 is OK. The XOM bundled versions are probably 
a little better, but not a lot better. They are much better than the 
versions in 1.4 though.

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