[jdom-interest] jdom and dom4j

[Dennis Sosnoski]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Neither JDOM nor dom4j works 
with JAXP directly, though they can use JAXP to get a parser.

I'm finding more and more people running into problems with using JAXP 
because of multiple implementations on the classpath (especially with 
1.4), though, so at this point I recommend that people go directly to 
the parser rather than using JAXP unless they really and truly don't 
care what parser they end up with.

  - Dennis

Sam wrote:

>So does the production relase of dom4j that you mention work with
>JAXP ? If I remember right,it works with only the TrAX API.
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>Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
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>>Jason, I know your feelings about this but (AFAIK) the dom4j codebase
>>does not contain any JDOM code so it's inaccurate to describe it as a
>>fork of JDOM.
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>>As for the level of press attention, JDOM has had several prominent
>>individuals who have extensively promoted it over the last 2+ years,
>>including numerous articles, presentations, and some books discussing
>>the then-current version. Each of these is out of date, with
>>non-functioning example code, within a few months when the next beta of
>>JDOM is published. People seem to keep buying the books though, so I
>>guess they don't mind. :-) I don't think there's been even one article
>>written on using dom4j, though I've given some brief code examples in my
>>articles and presentations.
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>>dom4j *has* been production released, with stable interfaces, for some
>>months now. Many people would consider that a major advantage.
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>>  - Dennis
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>>Jason Hunter wrote:
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>>>>There's been quite a few charts/tables comparing JDOM to DOM in many
>>>>regards.  But typically, the folks constructing the charts/tables
>>>>ignore dom4j completely.  dom4j hasn't gotten nearly the press
>>>>attention as JDOM.
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>>>That's probably because JDOM came first.  dom4j was a fork of JDOM.
>>>Historically, forks tend not to prosper as well as the original
>>>projects.
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>>>-jh-
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