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Re: Have JDOM / XOM / etc. failed? If so, why?

• To: Jason Hunter <jhunter@a...>
• Subject: Re: Have JDOM / XOM / etc. failed? If so, why?
• From: Chris Burdess <d09@h...>
• Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:56:52 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Jason Hunter wrote:
>> In some internal discussions of the XLinq http:// 
>> msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/ project, I got a very  
>> interesting bit of devil's advocacy that went something like  
>> this:  "People complain about the DOM, but they don't embrace  
>> alternatives.  For all the work that people have done to provide  
>> alternatives such as JDOM, dom4j, XOM, etc. in the Java world, the  
>> typical users and the major Java players still use DOM, warts and  
>> all."   I'm not at all convinced this is true, but I don't have  
>> any information at my fingertips to dispute it.  Would anyone care  
>> to present facts on one side or the other?
>
> There's a poll at servlets.com that asked this question:
>
> http://www.servlets.com/polls/results.tea?name=doms

This resource gives a 500 response. It wouldn't be a J2EE app by any  
chance?
-- 
ç?¬ Chris Burdess
   "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety
   deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

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