[jdom-interest] Re: Build Question (or wishesAreHorses)

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

> Shouldn't you be catching an UnrealisticExpectationException there?
> 
> :-)

I love it 
sub lame () throws UnrealisticExpectationException 

> 
> Okay, then...your opinion, meistro.  Am I doing well to go 
> through your examples using Xerces, Xalan and Cocoon rather 
> than JDOM, or are they mutually exclusive/compatible?  I 
> apologize for newbie queries, a priori, for my ignorance, as 
> this is my first serious foray into Java XML.  I have been 
> lurking about JDOM-interest, but little of what is discussed 
> is registering yet.

IMHO

Xerces - probably not but it depends on what you want to do and how deep you
want to get into it all.
Xalan - Certainly though I really have found the use cases for xsl less than
I ever guessed
Cocoon - probably not though my opinion is related to my thoughts on xsl.
Also, Cocoon is undergoing a rewrite which will hopefully make it better

JDOM - of course ;-)