XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> 
wrote:
> XOM 1.2 is now available from the usual location:
>
> http://www.xom.nu/
>
> Apologies that this one took so long. There should have been a release
> in 2007, but late 2007-2008 was a very challenging time. (Moved across
> the country; new jobs, etc.)
>
> I do not at this point have any plans for further major feature
> releases. 1.1 really reached the point where XOM scratched all my
> personal itches, so I don't feel a compelling need to expand on it. Bug
> fixes and performance improvements will now roll out in 1.2.1, 1.2.2, etc.
>
> This release fixes a number of bugs, especially in canonicalization and
> XPath. However there's at least one bug fix in the core so I recommend
> all users upgrade. XOM 1.2 should be fully backwards compatible with
> code written to 1.0 and 1.1 APIs. 1.2 should also be somewhat easier to
> compile and edit due to various changes with UnicodeUtil and Jaxen.
>
> Actual new features in this release are fairly minor and include:
>
> Latest Unicode normalization tables.
> Upgraded to Jaxen 1.1.2
> xml:id attributes no longer checked for NCNames
> Upgraded to Xerces 2.8.0, DTD-only version
> DOMConverter can accept a NodeFactory to be used in creating the XOM
> document
> A lookup method in XPathContext that finds the namespace URI for a prefix
>
>
> If no one finds any glaring flaws in this release, I'll announce it
> elsewhere over the next week or so.
>


Excellent! I will run some regression tests on it today.

-steve