[jdom-interest] jdom and dom4j

[Sam]

True. 

But in order for a parser to be returned from the JAXP api, the
underlying impl must implement the JAXP interfaces... ie be JAXP
compliant (thats what i meant by work with JAXP).

So.. let me rephrase that. Can jdom be used under JAXP ? (ie is there
a factory implementation class for JAXP ?

In order for this to work, the dom4j DOM would have to implement the
w3c dom interface

./s



Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> >./s
> >
> >
> >
> >Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>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 Each of these is out of date, with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.
> >>
> >>dom4j *has* been production released, with stable interfaces, for some
> >>months now. Many people would consider that a major advantage.
> >>
> >>  - Dennis
> >>
> >>Jason Hunter wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>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.
> >>>
> >>>-jh-
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