XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 11:13 PM -0500 9/19/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
> Line 196 of Serializer (where it prints out additional namespaces) should
> be writeMarkup(additionalPrefix).

Yes, it should be. Fixed now. Thanks!

> And if you didn't find it, writePCDATA(char c) in TextWriter  I think needs
> a else around the write(c);

I caught that when I was hunting down your last bug.

Overall, I'm quite proud of Serializer. The patterns it uses to allow 
it to figure out which characters are available in the requested 
encoding and which aren't, took a lot of thought and a lot of work. 
This allows XOM to output actual characters wherever possible rather 
than just jumping straight to numeric references for all non-ASCII 
characters like a lot of other serializers do. It's not on the top of 
my priority list right now, but I should right something up about how 
this works, so other coders can easily contribute support for their 
own encodings.

On the other hand, I was so busy figuring out how to do this that I 
seem to have forgotten about more basic issues like escaping < and & 
in text content. So far, at least, those bugs and oversights seem 
able to be fixed without rearchitecting the Serializer class.
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