XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 4:35 PM -0400 7/9/03, John Cowan wrote:

> 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 think I already said that that's not going to be considered telling 
the serializer to adjust the white space. Though there are really 
only a few places where a line terminator would be output unless it's 
in the input or unless the serializer is indenting or trying to keep 
a maximum line length. Basically just in the prolog of the document, 
I think.

Here's a question: why would a user set the line terminator at all if 
they do not want the serializer to adjust the white space? Without 
also calling setMaxLength or setIndent, setLineSeparator is very 
close to a no-op.
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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
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