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• Subject: RE: re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on What's Wrong with XML APIs (and How to Fix Them)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:14:20 -0400
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At 5:02 PM +0000 9/12/02, Martin Klang wrote:

>If you compare reading and generating XML in say Java or C++ with
>doing the same thing in o:XML, it's the traditional languages that are
>verbose - just try creating a couple of elements with attributes using DOM
>or SAX and you will see what I mean!
>

You can't create attributes with SAX. SAX is read-only. You can do it 
with DOM, and that's certainly way too verbose. JDOM, however, is 
much simpler:

Element element = new Element("para");
para.setAttribute("id", "p1");
para.setAttribute("align", "left");

XOM will be no more and sometimes less verbose than JDOM. How does 
o:XML compare to this? Could you show us the equivalent o:XML code 
for the above JDOM code?
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