XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 9:50 AM -0500 7/8/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


> Okay, again, then forget what the serializer says the line seperator is
> and always escape.  If you convert line breaks in attribute values to
> whatever the serializer says is the current line seperator, what does the
> end user gain? It displays better in Notepad?


The basic idea is that if the user has told the serializer to change 
the white space, then it will. However, if the user has not told the 
serializer to change the white space, then it won't.

Possibly what all this needs is a couple more options on the 
serializer to more explicitly control how data is serialized. Yuck. 
This a really messy part of XML. I think anything we do here is 
likely to be ugly.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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