Groovy dom4j

James Strachan posted a response to my complaining about over abstraction in Java APIs. He provides a rewrite that uses dom4j instead of Saxon for the example I was using. I knew dom4j would be simpler, but it's actually better then I thought. Of course I still think that a great many Java APIs have too much abstraction, but I'm definitely glad dom4j provides a simple API for the easy cases. That's what you're going to want to deal with most of the time with something like Groovy.

Posted by Kimbro Staken