XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 1:27 PM -0500 3/19/04, jcowan AT reutershealth.com wrote:

> That said, it's not very clear to me why you want to support File
> or String as sources anyhow; it's soooo trivial to wrap the File in
> a FileInputStream and the String in a StringReader.  It seems to me
> like clutter.  If you want, mention FileInputStream and StringReader in the
> documentation.

File maybe. However, it's been my experience in JDOM that using a 
StringReader is inobvious to a significant number of users. That is, 
how to build from a string is a JDOM FAQ.

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