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Michael Fitzgerald wrote,
> If you are interested and want an on-ramp, I've written a very quick
> micro tutorial. It assumes that you are comfortable with Java. Here
> ya go:
<snip/>
> public class Date {
>
<snip/>
I'm afraid I don't find this example particularly compelling, because it
invites a comparison with,
public class Date
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.print(
"<?xml version="1.0"?>\n"+
" <date type="ISO">\n"+
" <year>2002</year>\n"+
" <month>09</month>\n"+
" <day>20</day>\n"+
"</date>\n"
);
}
}
and loses, big time.
Any tree-like API lives or dies by its ease of use for traversal and
manipulation rather than simple construction and serialization. And
there I just don't see XOM as sufficiently different from the DOM or
JDOM or DOM4J to get particularly excited about. Yeah, it's a bit
cleaner, a bit more idiomatic for Java ... but is that enough?
Cheers,
Miles
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