XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> The default will be for the serializer not to change the infoset in 
> any way. However, if user tells the serializer to adjust the infoset 
> as regards white space, then in my opinion they have said that white 
> space is not significant. 

Fair enough.  In that case, the default mode should:

1) Escape all \r characters;
2) Escape \t and \n characters in attribute values;
3) Output \n characters in character content as the line terminator;
4) Escape all non-encodable characters;
5) Encode everything else.

Doing anything else will not preserve the infoset through a round trip.

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