XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Everyone seemed to like this idea so I went ahead and added it to my 
tree. It will be in the next d19 release. (FYI, I'm working on 
getting a CVS repository set up through java.net so you won't have to 
wait for  releases in the future. However, things seem to be moving 
at a snail's pace over there right now.)

As usual, answering any question opens up two more. In this case here 
are the two:

1. How should carriage returns and linefeeds in attribute values be 
affected by the serializer's explicitly set line separator? My gut 
says that if the client calls setLineSeparator, then there should be 
no escaping of line breaks of any kind, and all line breaks should be 
converted to whatever string the client passed to setLineSeparator.

2. Assuming setLineSeparator is not called explicitly, should the 
serializer also escape carriage returns in text nodes with numeric 
character references?

Note that it is simply not possible in XML to preserve carriage 
returns in comments and processing instructions because numeric 
character references are not resolved in those contexts.

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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