XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Wolfgang Hoschek scripsit:

> What I needed was an alternative (high-performance) serialization 
> mechanism. It serializes a document to some binary format and later 
> deserializes from the binary format, yielding the *very same* document. 
> So on deserialization I need a way to say setInternalDTDSubset(String 
> subset) on an empty document, and pass in the same value I previously 
> got on serialization from getInternalDTDSubset().  Just that; no fancy 
> behaviour. The nodes of a document should not be altered in any way by 
> setInternalDTDSubset, the only thing that should be altered is the 
> subset string stored in the DocType. Until a better solution can be 
> found, my workaround simply declares setInternalDTDSubset public.

A better tactic, I think, is to add a method getSealedInternalDTDSubset()
which returns a SealedInternalDTDSubset.  This is a trivial class with
no public constructor and only toString, hashCode, and equals methods.
Then setSealedInternalDTDSubset(SealedInternalDTDSubset s) can be
made public.

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