XOM Design Principles

• A few opinions
• Why Me?
• Four Styles of XML API
• Push APIs
• Pull APIs
• Data Binding APIs
• Tree APIs
• DOM
• DOM Ugliness
• Reasons for DOM Ugliness
• What I learned from DOM
• JDOM
• Is JDOM too Java-centric?
• What I learned from JDOM
• dom4j
• Conclusion: We can do better
• nu.xom: A New XML Object Model
• Design Goals
• XML Principles
• Design Principles
• Principles of API Design
• Java Principles
• Development Style
• Performance
• How does XOM differ from JDOM?
• In XOM's Favor
• XOM is simpler!
• Future Directions
• Props
• To Learn More
• Q&A?

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