XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Noam Tamim <noamtm AT gmail.com>]

On 5/12/05, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Short of forking the code, you can't do that.


Why not? It will be a lot of work, but can't you create something like the 
Serializer class, that instead of outputing the XML just counts the number 
of characters?

Luca: why would you want that in the first place?


-Noam.