XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Luca Passani wrote:
> Elliotte, I went to www.xom.nu to download a newer version of XOM for 
> the next WURFL API distribution, but, to my surprise, xom-1.1.jar is now 
> 400+ kb, while 1.0 was about 100. Is there any special reason for making 
> the bare-bone distribution so fat?  American diet? any way I can get a 
> leaner distribution for packaging with my library or should I stick to 
> the older version?

I'd have to check to make sure, but I suspect a few things contribute to 
the larger 1.1:

1. jaxen is now bundled
2. XOM does its own normalization handling instead of bundling ICU. XOM 
1.0 + ICU (normalizer.jar) was bigger than you have now.



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