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

• To: Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder@y...>
• Subject: Re: Have JDOM / XOM / etc. failed? If so, why?
• From: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@c...>
• Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:42:50 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> --- "Oleg A. Paraschenko" <olpa@x...> wrote:
>
>   
>>> But if this is true, why have cleaner, programming
>>>       
>> language-friendly
>>     
>>> alternatives failed to displace the dear old DOM
>>>       
>> as the dominant XML
>>     
>>> programming model after all these years?
>>>       
>> Being a mediocre Java coder, I wonder if the
>> alternatives do really
>> provide any benefits, comparing to the standard DOM
>> with XPath support.
>>     
> ...
>   
>> I've looked at the home pages of JDOM, dom4j, XOM,
>> and only XOM has
>> description how it is different from other
>> competitors. I don't believe
>> the words "easy to use, intuitive, optimised,
>> flexible, unique, open
>> source": these words are everywhere.
>>     
>
> But wouldn't the best way to know for sure be to try
> them out? Since all these choices basically still do
> the same thing (offer a mutable in-memory tree model
> of the xml infoset) it may not be possible to
> summarize differences in simple yet accurate and
> dev-credible way.
>
>   
i wonder if anybody created Java 5 specific API that uses Iterable and
generics and other syntax sugar? i did something like that and it can be
fun and even makes code that deals with XML in Java look easier to read ...

best,

alek

-- 
The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay

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