XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 9:20 AM -0800 3/27/03, Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com wrote:
> In the "What's wrong" slides, page 68 on Encoding, it is mentioned that
> the Serializer "supports all encodings available in the VM". It also
> states that "Modular design makes it fairly easy to add more by
> contribution."
> Does that mean, that I "fairly easy" can add support for an encoding not
> currently supported natively by the VM? And if so, how is that done?
> Specifically, I need support for "ebcdic-us" encoding.

Looking at the source code I just realized something. IS EBCDIC-US 
the same character set as US-ASCII, just mapping the characters to 
different code points? If so, then try it. Assuming your Java VM 
support EBCDIC-US it should just work.

On the other hand, it is not trivial to use an encoding not supported 
by the current VM, so I may have originally misunderstood your 
question. XOM relies on OutputStreamWriter to convert characters into 
bytes in the given encoding. All XOM does is figure out which 
characters can be written in the specified character set and which 
have to be escaped.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA