XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Micah Schehl wrote:
> How can I use xom as an input source for javax.xml.transform.Source?  I see
> nu.xom.xslt.XOMSource, but it is not public.

XOM does not provide this functionality. The assumption is you'll use 
the XSLT support built into XOM itself rather than the poorly designed 
InputSource interface from TrAX.

This does mean that you'll have a hard time using XOM as input to other 
products like Saxon that currently offer more features and languages 
than XOM provides. However, the architectural flaw in InputSource is 
that even if I did expose an InputSource implementation it still 
wouldn't work with third party products unless they had specifically 
designed themselves to work with XOM. That is, InputSource alone is not 
sufficient to enable a product to successfully consume XOM documents. 
The third party product has to specifically be aware of and account for 
XOM's (or SAX's, or DOM's, or JDOM's) underlying model and do a lot of 
nasty casting to get the object into the form they expect.

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