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| title="Frequently (and less frequently) Asked Questions" |
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| <part id="general"> |
| <faq id="dom"> |
| <question> |
| I'm using Axiom, but I need to integrate with a library using DOM. What can I do? |
| </question> |
| <answer> |
| <p>There are currently two solutions:</p> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Axiom separates API and implementation. The default implementation is called |
| LLOM (Linked List Object Model) and provided by the <code>axiom-impl</code> |
| artifact. There is also a second implementation called DOOM (DOM over OM) that |
| implements both the Axiom API and DOM. It is provided by the <code>axiom-dom</code> |
| artifact. You can use this implementation to integrate with DOM based code. |
| Note however that the DOM implementation provided by DOOM is not perfect. In |
| particular it doesn't implement (all of) DOM 3.</li> |
| <li>The Axiom API now has |
| <a href="apidocs/org/apache/axiom/om/OMContainer.html#getSAXSource(boolean)"><code>getSAXSource</code></a> and |
| <a href="apidocs/org/apache/axiom/om/impl/jaxp/OMResult.html"><code>getSAXResult</code></a> |
| methods that (as their names imply) return instances of JAXP's |
| <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/sax/SAXSource.html"><code>SAXSource</code></a> and |
| <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/sax/SAXResult.html"><code>SAXResult</code></a> |
| classes. You can use these to transform an Axiom tree into DOM (using |
| a standard implementation of DOM) and vice-versa. Note that since they use the SAX API, |
| you will loose the deferred parsing capabilities of Axiom, but in many cases this will be |
| acceptable.</li> |
| </ol> |
| </answer> |
| </faq> |
| </part> |
| </faqs> |
