XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 6:41 PM -0500 7/8/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

> My problem is I'm learning toward the position that if I serialize a XOM or
> JDOM tree to text, I should be able to run it through a XML parser and
> XOMHandler/SAXHandler and get the same XOM or JDOM tree where all attribute
> values and text nodes will be the same character for character as the
> original. It just hits my Okie simplicity as the right thing to do. I'm not
> sure if automatically converting the line breaks will do that. By always
> escaping all attribute values and text nodes so the re-parse will recreate
> the original character, I'm pretty sure it will.

I think I agree with this, though it may be uglier than the current 
default output. Nothing will be automatically converted. Conversion 
will take place if and only if the user tells the serializer to 
change the white space in some way.
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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