XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Finally, I added an experimental build method to Builder that builds 
> a XOM Document directly from a String containing well-formed XML.
> 
>    public Document build(String document, String baseURI)

Presumably this just wraps the String in a StringReader.  Is there any
benefit to XOM doing this vs. the user doing it?  It seems like one of
those trivial convenience methods XOM doesn't have, by design.

> Serializer also underwent major improvements. It now supports all 
> defined ISO-8859 character sets, including:

Excellent!

> Note that although XOM supports them, not all Java virtual machines 
> do. In particular 10 and up are often unavailable.

So if the JVM doesn't support it, you get an UnsupportedEncodingException?

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