XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Randall R Schulz wrote:

> I'm sure you'll balk at this--I would--but I'm seeing some library JARs 
> released in multiple versions, depending on which version of Java / JVM 
> they are to be used with. The JGraphT and Javolution libraries do this, 
> e.g.. Both use generics and have some sort of retro transformation that 
> renders their source code pre-1.5 compatible. I don't know offhand 
> whether they use any of the new library / compiler types such as 
> Iterable and if so how they handle that.

If generics actually worked and could be relied on, that would be a 
significant benefit to using Java 5. But since they can't be relied on, 
I couldn't use them for XOM, even if I were to move to Java 5 so the 
point's moot.

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