XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

John Cowan wrote:


> Serializer must have a method that knows, e.g., that U+0100 isn't
> representable in Latin-1, so that it can write out "Ā" or the like
> when serializing it.  Exposing that method will be essential to get
> CDATASerializer correct, since CDATASerializer is generic -- it will
> need to accept an encoding argument in the constructor and pass it to
> the Serializer constructor.


XOM does have such a method, but it's on the wrong side of 80/20 for the 
published API.

My point is that this functionality is not all that hard to reinvent, 
especially if

1. You're using Java 1.4 or later, in which case it's built into the JDK

or

2. You only care about the easy encodings: Unicode, Latin-1, ASCII, and 
some of the Asian character sets

or

3. You can borrow the code from XOM

All you need is one of those to be true to make this a pretty straight 
forward task.

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