StaxMate 2.0: another Big Leap towards convenient, efficient xml processing
StaxMate 2.0.0 is
now out, to augment your favorite Stax XML parser (like Woodstox
or Aalto).
(for
introduction to StaxMate, check out this tutorial).
Improvements for this release are focused in 3 main areas:
-
Convenient AND efficient access to typed content. With a little bit of
help from a new version of Stax2
extension API (version 3.0), it is now possibly to efficiently read
and write values of numeric (int, long, double), boolean and
enumerated (Java enums) types.
In future, more methods will be added to allow similar access to numeric arrays and base64-encoded binary content. -
More convenience methods:
-
SMinputCursor.advance() to allow chaining, for example:
int value = cursor.childElementCursor().advance().getElemIntValue() -
SMInputCursor.asEvent() to construct
XMLEvents for the current event. - Ability to pre-declare namespaces on output (using SMOutputElement.predeclareNamespace()) to minimize number of namespace declarations (not usually needed, sometimes is)
- SMOutputElement.addElementWithCharacters() for a convenient short-cut.
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SMinputCursor.advance() to allow chaining, for example:
-
Interoperability improvements:
- DOMBuilder for building DOM documents out of XMLStreamReaders, and serializing DOM documents and elements using XMLStreamWriter.
- StaxMate jar is now a fully functioning OSGi bundle
One reason for the major version bump is that this version requires implementation of Stax2 version 3.0, natively implemented by Woodstox and Aalto, and emulated for others (like Sjsxp) using Stax2 reference implementation. This version upgrade will offer wider range of functionality for future, and similar upgrade should not be needed in near future.
