XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Christian Vest Hansen" <karmazilla AT gmail.com>]

2006/10/31, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>:
> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>
> > If you'd rather like to expose the namespace map in a strongly typed
> > manner, fine. For example via getNamespaceCount(),
> > getNamespacePrefix(int), getNamespaceURI(int).
>
> That's what I was wondering if you're doing. We could actually cut that
> down to two methods, at some cost in speed by replacing
> getNamespaceURI(int) with a getNamespacePrefix(int) followed by a
> lookup. Usually there's less than a dozen mappings (often only or two)
> so this might not matter a great deal. Or I could just return a String
> array of prefixes, and make it one method call.
>
> None of these options are all that difficult. I'm much more concerned
> with getting the right API, than with saving a half hour of coding.

NamespaceMap, perhaps? As a stronly typed, thin wrapper around the internal 
map?
Just throwing in a suggestion...

Cheers

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