XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no>]

Hi Guys

here is another question which will probably irritate some of you, as 
usual, but which is relevant to those who need to make XML do something 
useful. Is there a way to ask an element how big it and all of its 
children are (in bytes)?
Is there any other metrics for the size of the XML OM?

I can think of asking the element to render itself as a string, and 
measure the size of that, but it sounds like this would not be very 
efficient performance wise. Is there a way for me to create a new field 
to the Node() class and traverse the Object model bottom-up to assign 
the right value to the field?

Thanks

Luca