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.
> 
> The output is not a document: A (well-formed) XML document contains one and 
> only one root element. 

Well, okay.  But my point stands: XML is textual, and getXML (I prefer
this capitalization, based on the Java treatment of "URI" and other
acronyms whether pronounceable or not) is a very sensible name for
something that returns a text.

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