XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> The application of the first principle is obvious. The application of 
> the second is based on my observation that lots of client code out 
> there in the world today  treats CDATA sections as some kind of 
> special purpose container with structural significance rather than as 
> just syntax sugar. I deliberately chose not to make this possible in 
> XOM. I want to cause cognitive dissonance for developers using CDATA 
> sections in this fashion so that they will reevaluate their approach 
> and come to a better understanding of how they should and should not 
> use CDATA.

Fair enough.  For documents that are meant to be readable, though, it might
make sense for at least some whole elements (ones with embedded languages
like "script" or "style") to be output as CDATA sections.  How about
methods Serializer.writeAsCDATA(Text|Element), which would not affect the core
model?

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