XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 1:03 PM +0200 9/20/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

> 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.

Is a fragment of an XML document still XML? I certainly don't think 
the method should be called toXMLDocument() but toXML() seems 
appropriately ambiguous.
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