XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Thomas Hicks <hickst AT theriver.com>]

At 02:52 PM 9/27/2007, you wrote:
> Thomas Hicks wrote:
> > I used to work for Ralph Griswold, the creator of the SNOBOL
> > and Icon programming languages. Whenever someone would
> > program something particularly unusual or suspect Ralph would
> > remark "Well, we're just in the business of selling rope. If they
> > want to hang themselves, that's their business."
> >          cheers,
> >          -tom
>
>
> All I can say is, XOM's philosophy is very different. Not that you 
> can't hang yourself with it, but I want to make it very, very hard to do so.

I understand your motives but sometimes you have to bend your
noble principles for pragmatism. I'm stuck, for example, trying
to integrate XOM (which I really like) into this 3rd party application.
And note that Mr. Guttierez resorted to some clever (and possibly
dangerous?) workaround. How many other programmers will
just do that, with possibly bad results? Perhaps you could take
another look at the problem and come up with a "safe",
XOM-oriented solution for us all.
        regards,
        -tom