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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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