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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: XOM vs. dom4j

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It seems your needs wrt. XPath support, as well as setting parameters 
and resolvers on an XSL Transform are met by the Nux extension to XOM: 
http://dsd.lbl.gov/nux/

Wolfgang.

On Oct 27, 2004, at 7:20 PM, Robert Koberg wrote:

> OK. I can't try to switch until some of the new features are added, 
> but I will keep an eye on XOM. More inline...
>
>
> Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
>> Robert Koberg wrote:
> <snip/>
>>>  -- can I use XOM in a jaxp transformation so I can set a 
>>> URIResolver on the TransformerFactory and another on the 
>>> Transformer? In other words, is there something (planned) like a 
>>> XOMSource?
>> Wolfgang Hoschek has done some work along those lines in Nux. Longer 
>> term what's planned is catalog support, but I doubt I'll expose more 
>> of the TrAX API directly.
>
> This will probably make me not use XOM. My use case is that I have 
> several projects under my manager app's control. Projects start out 
> with one XSL file and import default files from the manager app. 
> Projects can 'override' files by either creating templates/variables 
> in thier main file or they can create files to override the default 
> files. So, the TransformerFactory resolver looks first in the 
> project's directory for XSL files, if not there it falls back to the 
> manager app's files. I would not want to hardcode file paths in a 
> catalog XML file (and I would not want the user to maintain it) or 
> create a catalog in memory and have to check if the catalog needs to 
> change if a user adds/removes an XSL file to their project.
>
> best,
> -Rob
>
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