XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve Loughran wrote:
> Elliotte,
>
> are you by any chance the author of the Xom and Jaxen POM metadata
> files? The Jaxen one is a bit of a mess:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/jaxen/jaxen/1.1-beta-8/jaxen-1.1-beta-8.pom
>
> 1. it should declare all its dependencies (dom4j, jdom, xerces and
> xom) optional, unless they really are required.
> 2. it should go to a later version of Xom than 1.0b3.

Maven's pretty bad at this stuff. I'm not sure why it doesn't allow a 
later version to substitute for an earlier version if necessary.

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