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Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)

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• Subject: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:46:53 +0100
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Michael Fitzgerald wrote,
> If you are interested and want an on-ramp, I've written a very quick
> micro tutorial. It assumes that you are comfortable with Java. Here
> ya go:
<snip/>

> public class Date {
>
<snip/>

I'm afraid I don't find this example particularly compelling, because it 
invites a comparison with,

  public class Date
  {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
      System.out.print(
        "<?xml version="1.0"?>\n"+
        " <date type="ISO">\n"+
        " <year>2002</year>\n"+
        " <month>09</month>\n"+
        " <day>20</day>\n"+
        "</date>\n"
      );
    }
  }

and loses,  big time.

Any tree-like API lives or dies by its ease of use for traversal and 
manipulation rather than simple construction and serialization. And 
there I just don't see XOM as sufficiently different from the DOM or 
JDOM or DOM4J to get particularly excited about. Yeah, it's a bit 
cleaner, a bit more idiomatic for Java ... but is that enough?

Cheers,


Miles

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