XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 12:30 PM -0500 10/22/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


> What about writing four subclasses of FilterOutputStream 
> (NFCFilterOutputStream,
> NFKCFilterOutputStream, NFDFilterOutputStream, NFDKFilterOutputStream)? Then
> setUnicodeNormalization(true) can automagically wrap a NFCFilterOutputStream
> around the output stream provided to the serializer.  Anyone wanting something
> other than NFC can wrap the output stream by hand.

I don't think that would work. It assumes the underlying stream is 
using a Unicode encoding, but it might well not be. It could be 
ISO-8859-1 or something else. How the filtering happened would depend 
ion the encoding. Even the difference between UTF-16 and UTF-8 could 
be a problem.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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