RE: [Rsslibj-developer] licenses

[Danny A. <dan...@vi...>]

I'm not familiar with EXML (or jdom for that matter), though it's not hard
to imagine how it would be able to make things easier than JAXP. However, I
don't think JAXP's all *that* bad - specifically :

> Porting the XML to JAXP has been considered. However, JAXP is very
> difficult to work with, compared to EXML; EXML handles generation of the
> XML for you from a DOM, for example, where JAXP requires manual
> generation.

API implementations (such as Xerces) usually have fairly simple
serialization available, though outside of JAXP proper. It's also possible
to serialize using javax.xml.transform, see :
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/chapters/ch09s09.html
"Using JAXP to both read and write an XML document"

> Also, JAXP handles namespacing very poorly.

If I remember correctly, the first release of JAXP, maybe a couple of years
ago, didn't have *any* support for namespaces, but as far as I know the
current version & implementations handle namespaces as well as one would
expect.

Cheers,
Danny.