XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 7:07 AM -0700 10/9/02, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> >  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.
>
> Oh, well, what I meant was using XOM to help me with my own XML serializer
> for plain text. Admittedly, a very narrow case.

Oh, OK. That's plausible. With the changes I'm working into 
Serializer now for 1.0d6 that should not be a problem. Note that 
already for simple output you can use document.getValue() now. :-)


> With xom-1.0d5.jar, Serializer gives you <empty/> (hurrah) but toXML() alone
> gives you <empty></empty>.


That should not be hard to fix. I'll look at it.
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