XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Fitzgerald" <mike AT wyeast.net>]

John Cowan wrote:
> > protected void writeMarkup(String s)
> > protected void writePCDATA(String s)
>
> I like this idea, and would add:
>
> writeStartTag, writeEndTag, writeEmptyTag, writePITarget, writePIContent,
> writeProlog, writeEpilog.

I like these fine-grained methods, too, even though they may spawn
well-formedness errors, but one can detect them easily enough anyway.

One use case: serializing plain text as XML.

Also, for aesthetics, I wish I could get an element with no text children to
be formed as an empty element tag instead of a start tag and end tag with no
content. In other words, this

<empty/>

is preferred over this

<empty></empty>

although they are syntactically the same.

Mike