XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> At 10:48 AM -0500 7/7/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
> >I'm beginning to wonder if adding the methods appendValue(String value) and
> >appendEntity(String name) (or maybe just appendCharRef(char ch)) to 
> >Attribut
> e
> >would make life simpler for everyone.
> 
> No, that adds too much complexity for way too little benefit. Plus it 
> mixes up the structure and the syntax. XOM does not model anything at 
> the syntax layer.

As opposed to having complicated rules about when escaping will/will not
occur? Ok, then make it super simple, cr, lf, and such in attribute values
will always be escaped as char. ref. regradless of any other settings.

Brad