XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

On a recent thread on xml-dev James Clark (who is always worth 
listening to) wrote:

 If your infoset contains a carriage return, you have to output
 it as a numeric character reference, otherwise line-end
 normalization will turn it into a line-feed. Similarly, if
 attribute values in the infoset contain line-feeds or tabs, they
 need to be output as numeric character references, otherwise
 attribute value normalization will turn them into spaces...When
 I'm creating XML, some parts of what I am creating may well have
 come from parsing an XML document.  That means if there's any
 XML infoset that my program cannot serialize correctly, it's
 potentially a bug.


I don't think the XOM serializer bothers to escape such carriage 
returns, line feeds, tabs and the like where Clark suggests it 
should. Should it? Or should this at least be an option in the 
Serializer? And if it is an option, should it be the default option? 
Thoughts?


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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