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Hello Tatu, On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:22:16 -0800 (PST) Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder@y...> wrote: ... > > 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? Unfortunately, I don't have luxury of having time to try everything. > 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 agree in that XOM gets closest to fully explaining > its philosophy: about the only major goal not listed > above is (if I'm not mistaken) 'correctness'. Some > people like that clarity; others prefer JDom for its > simplifications (while others disagree them as > oversimplifications); and yet others dom4j for its > more advanced object model above and beyond JDom. To > each his own. In most applications, the actual DOM implementation is a second role issue, and paying attention to it is just wasting of efforts. For unimportant issues, the defaults are ok. > > -+ Tatu +- > > -- Oleg Parashchenko olpa@ http://xmlhack.ru/ XML news in Russian http://uucode.com/blog/ Generative Programming, XML, TeX, Scheme
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