XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

On 28/03/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> 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

that isn't going to clash with any other version of jaxen on the CP is it?

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

makes sense