JDOM Migration

Ernesto had asked Robin and myself to migrate ConcepTool from use of DOM (org.xml.dom package and its children) to JDOM (org.jdom, the package we've been using in our course for a while now). This was because in shifting from Java 1.4 to 1.5, a bug crept in that affects DOM's use of streams. Also, JDOM is well recognised as a good way to handle XML.

Robin and I began work on this yesterday and have just finished the migration. There is still one reference to DOM that is required for use in XSL Transformation code.

Current todo list:

• Create a list of papers to reduce to those worth reading with Ernesto (I already have a reasonable list at CiteULike but plan on adding to it).


• Write a Project Plan (first deliverable of the module). I had planned to start this next week, but may manage to start sooner since the XML work was shorter than expected.