XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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Bradley S. Huffman scripsit:

> > 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.

Just insert the end-tag processing into 4.

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

Quite right.  So step 4 should be:

        If the current node is not the initial node:
                move to the parent, do end-element processing if any, go to 
step 3.

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