jdom vs. xerces

[da@vizbang.com]

i'm doing a little break from the wacky interface thing to work on some
java middleware.  i'd been using xerces, but i just came across jdom,
which looks awfully neat and seems to support translations (which i'm
using).  i'm only vaguely disattisfied with xerces - it's doing what i
need, but i keep getting the feeling that things should be easier than
they are.  i.e. XMLOutputter in jdom vs. however you do this via xerces -
serialize and send it to a string buffer or something.  but there's no
example that covers this directly, so, horrors, i have to actually figure
out something rather than just copy it. :)

has anyone tried both?  thoughts?

dan

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