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XOM 1.1 released

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• Subject: XOM 1.1 released
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:13:00 -0500
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I'm pleased to announce the release of XOM 1.1, my free-as-in-speech 
(LGPL) dual streaming/tree-based API for processing XML with Java.

http://www.xom.nu/

Version 1.1 maintains backwards compatibility with XOM 1.0 while adding 
a number of important new features including XPath queries, document 
subset canonicalization, exclusive XML canonicalization, external XSLT 
parameters, and xml:id support. It also fixes a number of bugs that were 
present in XOM 1.0, uses less memory, and is two to four times faster 
for many common operations.

The addition of XPath is especially significant. It removes the last 
remaining reason one might plausibly choose JDOM or dom4j instead of 
XOM. Going forward I think you'll find that XOM is more robust, faster, 
smaller, better documented, and much, much easier to use than the 
alternatives. Of course, there's a lot of working legacy code out there 
using JDOM or dom4j that no one's going to throw away, but new projects 
should seriously consider XOM. In my not at all humble opinion, XOM is 
demonstrably the best library of its type. There are still use cases for 
which one should choose a pure streaming API such as SAX, StAX, or XNI 
instead. However if you want an XML tree model in Java, XOM is the 
obvious choice.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim

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