XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 2:11 PM -0400 10/20/03, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

What do people think of

public void setUnicodeNormalizationFormC(boolean useNFC)
public boolean getUnicodeNormalizationFormC()

It's a little long, but it's clearer to developers who aren't 
accustomed to working with the arcana of Unicode. And it follows the 
customary Java principle of don't abbreviate.

I think the alternative is John Cowan's suggestion of

public void setUnicodeNFC(boolean useNFC)
public boolean getUnicodeNFC()

The other possibility is to actually support all four normalization 
forms, and do something like this:

public void setUnicodeNormalization(Type form)
public String getUnicodeNormalization()

However, I'm not sure that's actually a good idea. It goes against 
the W3C character model which suggests NFC or nothing However, there 
*might* be some use cases for NFKC in particular.

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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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