Does this community use common tools for core processes ? I would imagine many Component developers process XML-schema based inputs. That desires a tool of choice to bridge beween XML types and Java types/abstractions.
FYI -latest submission to Apache - XMLbeans which was used in developing BEA products. It does not build a objects tree, unless Object is required. So its efficient. It does maintain the original info set for Cursor based traversal. It does use Schema as metadata to generate Java classes mapped from XML types, full schema support. So Cursor and XML types as Java - are two facades for efficient and Java oriented XML instance traversal. The need for XML-Java binding is everywhere, inckuding support for JAXB, suggest one common tool used by BEA in own products. Shmuel