XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

The next version of XOM will add an option to Serializer to perform 
Unicode normalization using normalization form C (as recommended by 
the W3C character model) on output. Given IBM's International Classes 
for Unicode, this was not especially hard to implement. This is 
controlled by these two methods:

public void setNFC(boolean useNFC)
public boolean getNFC()

I am not, however, perfectly happy with the names for these methods. 
Would anyone care to suggest alternatives? I considered 
setUnicdoeNormalization and getUnicodeNormalization (or perhaps 
isUnicodeNormalizing), but that's not quite specific enough, because 
there are four Unicode normalization forms and I only intend to 
support NFC. Ideas?

Also, what should happen when setNFC() is invoked on a serializer 
using a non-Unicode encoding, e.g. ISO-8859-1 or EBCDIC? Shoudl the 
serializer simply ignore the request, or should it throw some sort of 
exception? If so, which exception is appropriate here? Thoughts?


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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