XOM makes XML Easier

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• Outline
• A few opinions
• Current version
• 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
• Design Principles
• Principles of API Design
• XML Principles
• Java Design Principles
• Development Style
• Create and serialize a document
• FibonacciXML Output
• Parsing a document
• The Node Class
• Example: PropertyPrinter
• PropertyPrinter Output
• Example: TreeReporter
• TreeReporter Output
• The Document Class
• Example: Validating XHTML
• Verify Root Element is html in the XHTML namespace
• The Element Class
• Element Constructors:
• Element Properties
• Methods to get child elements
• The Elements class
• Recursive Descent
• Example: TreeViewer
• Attribute Methods on Element
• Example: IDTagger
• Additional Namespaces
• Enumerating Namespaces
• The Text Class
• ROT13XML
• ROT13XML Output
• The Attribute Class
• Attribute Constructors
• Attribute Getter and Setter Methods
• Example: XLinkSpider
• XLinkSpider Output
• Attribute.Type
• The ProcessingInstruction Class
• Example: PoliteSpider
• The DocType Class
• Validating XHTML
• Three XHTML DTDs:
• XHTMLValidator
• XHTMLValidator Output
• The Comment Class
• Example: CommentReader
• CommentReader Output
• The Builder Class
• Example: Schema Validating
• Serializer
• Example: Pretty Printing
• Encoding
• Connecting to other Models
• The Wrong Side of 80/20
• Subclassing
• NodeFactory
• Factories
• Processing Arbitrarily Large Documents
• Streaming Processing of Large Documents
• Output of RSS Headlines
• XPath Processing of Small-to-Medium Documents
• Performance
• Candidates for Optimization
• How does XOM differ from JDOM?
• In XOM's Favor
• XOM is simpler!
• Future Directions
• Props
• To Learn More
• Questions?

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