XML News from Thursday, March 3, 2005

I've posted the second alpha release of XOM 1.1, my free-as-in-speech (LGPL) dual streaming/tree-based API for processing XML with Java. Version 1.1 maintains backwards compatibility with XOM 1.0 while adding a number of important new features including XPath support. Alpha 2 speeds up XPath queries by roughly a factor of 10. It also fixes assorted small bugs, and adds an XPathTypeException class that distinguishes syntactic errors from the case where an XPath expression returns something other than a node-set.