XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> 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.

Step 4 looks like a infinite loop to me. I think it should be "move to
the parent, go to step 3".

Brad