Elliotte's right — the ElementTraversal spec is lipstick on a very ugly pig that's already wearing a good amount of makeup (serialization) and a ridiculous hat (XML namespaces "support"). (I've already given the DOM a few deserved kicks.)
So what does it take to deprecate the DOM? It takes a better API on equivalent licensing terms, as more liberal licenses will tend to trump better software and many of the customers of a better XML API are at the more liberal end of the licensing spectrum, i.e., Apache. I'll second Dan's call to get XOM — or something that sucks as little as XOM does — packaged as a DOM killer, and at least from my perspective, that does not include a JSR or the JCP.
Do I smell bacon? It is, after all, the Year of the Pig...
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