XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 11:23 PM -0400 9/19/02, John Cowan wrote:

> BTW, the published JavaDoc of Text.setValue claims that the byte order
> mark is illegal; it's legal.   The BOM is \uFEFF; what is illegal is
> \uFFFE.  I'm not sure if this is just a doc bug or not.

really? XML allows the byte order mark to show up in the middle of a 
text node or attribute value? I thought it was only legal at the 
beginning of the document, before the XML declaration. Looking at 
production 2 of the XML spec, you do seem to be correct. Damn, that's 
weird.

I'll have to check this out, but the code is likely to be correct 
because it's based on the productions in the XML spec themselves. OK, 
I just looked and it seems correct. I'll just fix the JavaDoc and we 
should be hunky-dory. :-)
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