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  • From: David Collier-Brown <davec-b AT rogers.com>
  • To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: XOM API for Processing XML with Java <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>, davecb AT spamcop.net
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities
  • Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:36:49 -0500

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, David Collier-Brown <davec-b AT rogers.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Is there a simple, straightforward and perhaps even elegant way
>> to produce output containing symbolic entities?
>>
>
> No, there isn't.
>
> Writing an editor is the one major use case that is explicitly outside
> the goals of XOM (and implicitly outside the goals of every other
> major XML API).
>
> If you're going to write an editor you probably need to start by
> writing your own parser and libraries, because the usual ones just
> don't support this use case.
>
>
Ok, thanks: I'm actually producing input data for an editor, but that
looks as if it's effectively the same thing.

--dave

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