[Biojava-l] SAX, DOM, XPath and Flat files

Michael Heuer heuermh at acm.org
Fri Nov 30 06:06:26 UTC 2007


Mark Schreiber wrote:

> Java 5 SDK has both SAX and DOM as standard. I think it has XPath but
> not XQuery although XPath is probably more important for this use.
>
> The DOM model is a direct implementation of the W3C standard which
> makes it a little awkward from a java point of view but it is usable.
>
> Java 6 has StAX (the other one).

Yeah, those jerks.  :)

I wrote a note to the spec author a few weeks before "the other" StAX was
announced at a Java One however long ago asking them to reconsider their
project name.

Oh well.  We can still be the "original" StAX.

> http://stax.sf.net


May I kindly suggest skipping all of this talk about XML and have us
jump straight to OWL?  ;)

> http://dev.isb-sib.ch/projects/uniprot-rdf/

   michael




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