JDOM provides a way to represent XML documents for easy and efficient reading, manipulation, and writing. JDOM has a straightforward API, is a lightweight and fast, and is optimized for the Java programmer.

NOTE: JDOM is licensed and distributed under the terms of the Apache License.

Requirements:

· Java

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added an additional constructor to JDOMSource with an EntityResolver which is passed to the internal DocumentReader allowing the SAXOutputter to properly resolve DTDs.
· Added a forceNamespaceAware property to DOMOutputter which specifies you want a DOM constructed with namespaces even if the source JDOM document has no namespaces.
· Added support for attribute "INF" and "-INF" values, to indicate positive and negative infinity, as XML Schema allows.
· Moved isXMLWhitespace() method from private in XMLOutputter to public in Verifier.
Clarified XMLOutputter behavior with newlines and indents:
· setIndent(" ") means newlines and " " indents
· setIndent("") means newlines and "" indents
· setIndent(null) means no newlines and no indents
· Added set/getIgnoringBoundaryWhitespace() methods and features to SAXBuilder and SAXHandler.
· Added a setFactory() method on XSLTransformer to control the object types built by the transform.
· Added a string constant for the JDOM_OBJECT_MODEL_URI used by JAXP 1.3. It deserves being part of the public API.
· Fixed bug in SAXOutputter where default namespaces would be declared as xmlns:="" with a spurious colon.
· Fixed bug when using attributes without a namespace and outputting to a JDOMResult.
· Removing check that a comment not start with a hyphen. A careful reading of production 15 in the XML 1.0 spec indicates leading hyphens are in fact allowed.
· Fixed bug where outputFragment() on SAXOutputter could cause a NullPointerException because the locator would be null during the call.
· Fixed bug where serializing ElementFilter causes a NullPointerException if the filter has no assigned namespace
· Fixed some subtle bad behaviors in listIterator.add() logic, using brand new iterator logic.
· Allowed a String to be passed to ContentList.add(int, Object).
· Simplified JDOMAbout and renamed info.xml to jdom-info.xml, so getResourceAsStream() won't suffer any name collision.
· Fixed tiny issue where CDATA could be set with illegal character content.
· Added logic to escape some special characters in namespace URIs.
· Fixed bug where the attribute type would change on a setAttribute() call.
· Improved performance on Namespace handling.
· Improved and clarified Javadocs.