In my continuing efforts
to make XML dead-bang easy to manipulate with Java,
I've posted beta 7 of XOM, my dual streaming/tree API for processing XML with Java. This release fixes a few bugs and approximately doubles the performance of a few common operations including
getValue(), toXML(), DOM and SAX conversion, canonicalization, and XSL transformation.
This is the first release candidate. There are still a few open issues with regard to error handling in XInclude that require clarification from the XInclude working group. If they decide that how XOM currently behaves is correct, then XOM 1.0 is essentially complete. If they decide to require different behavior, a few changes may yet need to be made.