XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 2:15 PM -0700 10/8/02, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:

> One use case: serializing plain text as XML.

That's sort of backwards. The assumption is the serializer starts 
with an XML document, not plain text. The other direction might be 
something to look at on the Builder side, not the Serializer side.

> 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>

That should be what's happening now with the current serializer. If 
it's not, then there's a bug somewhere.
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