XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 4:06 PM -0500 3/8/04, jcowan AT reutershealth.com wrote:
>         0) Move to the root node.
>         1) Process the current node.
>         2) If the current node has a child:
>                 move to the first child, go to step 1.
>         3) If the current node has a rightward sibling:
>                 move to the rightward sibling, go to step 1.
>         4) If the current node has a parent:
>                 move to the parent, go to step 2.
>         5) Done.


This algorithm needs to be adjusted somewhat for the serialization use case.
The key difference is that a serializer needs to process an element 
twice, once for the start-tag before the children are processed and 
once for the end-tag after the children are processed.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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