XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Laurent Bihanic scripsit:

> Just to nag: Why not toXMLString() (toXmlString()) to clearly mark that the 
> output is not an XML document.

Au contraire: the output *is* an XML document, because an XML document
is a textual object.  XOM is not XML.

> Or even better: toString(), unless you see a good reason to keep the 
> existing 
> "[<class>: ...]". Debugging?

That is the contract of toString, like Smalltalk printString which is its
ancestor: print a convenient human-readable representation.

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