This is a fork of the original XOM project. Simon Harrer already added support for getting line and column numbers out from the current position from the file being worked on. I added missing libraries and foreach support for Nodes.java, and fixed the ant script to work properly. Concerning the libraries I added: jaxen-1.1.4.jar jaxen-1.1.4-src.zip tagsoup-1.2.jar servlet-api.jar Last lib is from tomcat 7, put directly into the project, so there is no need to softlink the project to the local tomcat install, and things just work. ################################################################################ XOM is a library. By itself, it doesn't do much of anything. It exists only to be used by other programs. It requires Java 1.2 or later. To install it you'll need to place the XOM JAR archive somewhere in your CLASSPATH. This archive is the file named something like xom-1.2.6.jar. (The version number may have changed if I've forgotten to update this document.) You can either put it in your jre/lib/ext directory, add xom-1.2.6.jar to your CLASSPATH environment variable, or use the -classpath option when invoking javac and java. To check your download you can run one of the sample programs found in the xom-samples.jar file. For instance, nu.xom.samples.PrettyPrinter class formats an XML document by inserting and removing white space around element boundaries. In Java 1.4 and later you can run it from the command line like this: $ java -classpath xom-samples.jar:xom-1.2.6.jar nu.xom.samples.PrettyPrinter filename.xml Java 1.3 and earlier do not have a built-in XML parser so in these environments you'll also need to install XOM's supporting libraries. These include xalan.jar, xercesImpl.jar, and xml-apis.jar, and are found in the lib directory. The versions shipped with XOM are quite a bit faster and less buggy than the ones bundled with the JDK, so you may well want to use them even in Java 1.4 and later. For example, $ java -classpath xom-samples.jar:xom-1.2.6.jar:lib/xml-apis.jar:lib/xercesImpl.jar:lib/xalan.jar nu.xom.samples.PrettyPrinter filename.xml You could leave out xalan.jar if you don't use any of the classes in nu.xom.xslt. junit.jar is only used for testing, and is not needed for normal operation of XOM. If you want to build XOM from source, you'll need to have Apache Ant installed. See http://ant.apache.org/. Once Ant is installed, building should be as simple as typing "ant compile" or "ant jar" in the xom directory. Type "ant help" to see other possible options. Most of the targets build in Ant 1.5 or later. However the betterdocs target requires Ant 1.6. ======================================================================= XOM is Copyright 2004, 2005, 2009 Elliotte Rusty Harold This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA You can contact Elliotte Rusty Harold by sending e-mail to elharo@ibiblio.org. Please include the word "XOM" in the subject line. For more information see http://www.xom.nu/ or ask a question on the xom-interest mailing list.