XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I've decided to make at least one more change to the Canonicalizer API. 
I'm going to remove the write(Nodes, String inclusiveNamespacePrefix) 
method. Instead, I'm going to add a setInclusiveNamespacePrefixes 
method. The reasons are two-fold:

1. The inclusiveNamespacePrefixes only matter when doing exclusive XML 
canonicalization.

2. I'm afraid that future canonicalization algorithms may add 
additional, per-document options, like a list of attributes to inherit, 
and I don't want the number of methods to grow exponentially to support 
them all.

One question that arises though. now that it's a separate option, should 
I just use addInclusiveNamespacePrefix and 
removeInclusiveNamespacePrefix, each of which would operate on a single 
prefix, rather than setting them all at once as a string?

In practice, I don't expect more than two or three inclusive prefixes 
per document at most; and most applications will probably reuse the same 
prefixes repeatedly.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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