XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>]

>At one point over a decade ago people were suggesting that namespaces 
should change with each version of an XML vocabulary, which might have 
made this useful; but it was soon realized that this was a very bad idea.

Unfortunately in the XML world there are many bad ideas that seem to be 
widely deployed, and this is one of them. Developers often have to cope 
with the mess left behind by XML document designers who should have 
known better. (Some of the XML document designers haven't written a line 
of code for 20 years, so it's not surprising this happens...)

Michael Kay
Saxonica