XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Steve Loughran" <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 25/10/06, Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic.net> wrote:

> The source of the information represented by these internal types is a
> variety of human-oriented logic languages (KIF and the TPTP problem
> format, e.g.). The internal data structures are used by theorem-proving
> and logic programming algorithms. The purpose for the XML repository is
> largely to add support for creating human-interfaces for building and
> managing theory libraries and knowledge bases. So while there's a
> single internal representation for the formulas, there are several
> external ones, XML being the newest.

Is Java really the right language for all this? I dont want to
advocate something like swi-prolog, but sometimes 'legacy'
logic/constraint languages are better than OO things.

> I might add that building Web interfaces using JSP and custom tags, (my
> first attempt) is much too tedious for my taste and still doesn't
> address content persistence. Using XML and its toolset gives me a huge
> leg up in persistence, content management and Web-based UI
> construction.
> ]

Well, once you embrace the XML space, there is Apache Cocoon and
NetKernel. JSP[X] pages are just servlets turned inside out and a
build process to match.

-steve