XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 2:38 PM -0500 7/7/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


> 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.

It's a question of where to put the complexity. Right now it's all 
hidden from the end user. That proposal makes end users do a lot more 
work to achieve the same affect. The internals of XOM are more 
complex, but making the outer API look simple is hard work. That's no 
surprise. The bottom line is that if XOM gets this right, then the 
client should not need to worry or care about how XOM does it. It 
should just work.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA