XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Well, yes but unless you call setMaxLength() or setIndent() there'll 
> be hardly any line breaks that weren't present in the source infoset. 

None, I hope.

> If you need line breaks for the next process, you'll either call 
> setMaxLength or put them into your infoset. And if you do put them in 
> the infoset for their use as linebreaks in a non-XML aware downstream 
> process, then you probably do want them converted to the current line 
> separator.

Exactly.  I write \n characters into my Text objects and then globally set
the Serializer's lineSeparator property to the platform line separator,
whatever it is.  That way, the selfsame piece of code generates the
local standard kind of plain text on all platforms.

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