XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

John Cowan writes:

> > >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.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > d18 is doing everything except 1 and 2. d19 will do all of this.
> 
> Good.  Then the remaining point is whether setting the line terminator is
> "tell[ing] the serializer to adjust the infoset as regards white space".
> I contend that it is not, and that the default mode should remain
> in effect.

I agree it is not. But setting a max. line length or indentation is and XOM
should then feel free to do any adjusting it needs to for "pretty printing".

Brad