XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 1:03 PM -0700 10/4/02, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:

Both <name></name> and <name xmlns=""></name> are identical for the 
purposes of namespaces.  There's no semantic difference between them.

That said, for aesthetic purposes, both constructors you cite should 
kick out <name></name> instead of <name xmlns=""></name>. I noticed 
this bug in Serializer this afternoon. Apparently it's present in 
toXML also. I'll fix it, and I expect to have a release out this 
weekend that fixes this and several other bugs, most notably a really 
stupid one where I forgot the # in hexadecimal character references 
output by Serializer.

API-wise I think this release will be completely compatible with 
1.0d4. I've added several useful methods to Builder and cleaned up 
its internals, but nothing you're relying on now should change.

I'm also thinking about how to optimize XOM for size because some of 
the new unit tests are very memory hungry (They generate documents 
with 60,000 or so elements, dump them into a byte array using the 
Serializer, parse the document back out again, then walk through the 
entire tree.) I've tried turning on string-interning in the parser, 
but that doesn't seem to have a huge effect. If anyone has noticed 
any other places where large chunks of memory could be saved, I'd 
appreciate suggestions.
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