XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic AT atosorigin.com>]

John Cowan wrote:
> > 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.

The output is not a document: A (well-formed) XML document contains one and 
only one root element. Thus only Element.getStringForm() can return an XML 
document. For the other nodes, the method returns a string that can be part of 
a document.

Laurent