[Biojava-dev] DOM, JDom, Xerces?

[Mark Fortner]

Mark & Andy,
I haven't used XOM before, but it sounds interesting.  I HAVE used Saxon and
it has good support for both XPath and XQuery.

Regards,

Mark Fortner

On 5/14/07, Andy Yates <ayates at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hey Mark,
>
> I've tried using XPath before on a couple of projects & it is quite
> nice. In terms of implementations the internal Java one isn't that
> bad but I really like XOM. It's a very clear/clean API and is quite
> easy to switch between using XPath back into the normal API.
>
> The other program I've heard reasonable things about is http://
> javadude.com/tools/antxr/index.html which is the XML equivalent to
> antlr. I haven't used it yet but it does look interesting
>
> Andy
>
> On 14 May 2007, at 04:14, Mark Schreiber wrote:
>
> > Hello -
> >
> > I am looking into XPath and XQuery as a way rapidly process the
> > increasing number of bioinformatics XML formats. As is typical with
> > Java there is a too many APIs to choose from.
> >
> > Have people had good experiences with the internal java API (if so
> > JDK1.5 or 1.6), or is JDom better (even though it is not really DOM)?
> > How about Xerces and Xalan from Apache???
> >
> > Is there much support for XQuery yet? I have seen there is a JSR for
> > official support of XQuery, is there an associated API for download?
> >
> > Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > - Mark
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