XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Noam Tamim <noamtm AT gmail.com>]

(group readers: my reply to Luca was accidentally sent to him directly, 
instead of to the list)

On 5/16/05, Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no> wrote:
> 
> > This is a common misconception.
> wow. I always heard the XML declaration referred to as 'the XML
> processing instruction'.
> Where does the misconception come from?


I guess it comes from the fact that it (visually) looks like a PI. See this 
short answer <http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N6145.html#d8016e49> from 
Michael Kay and the first
chapter<http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml/chapters/01.html>from
Elliotte's Effective XML book. Unfortunately, some "reference" sites
also
call this <http://xmlwriter.net/xml_guide/processing_instruction.shtml> a 
PI. 

> If you want your XML to be serialized with a specific encoding, you
> > pass that encoding to the nu.xom.Serializer. If the encoding is
> > supported (see Serializer API), it will put it in the declaration.
> is this the example I am supposed to look at?
> 
> https://xom.dev.java.net/source/browse/xom/src/nu/xom/samples/EncodingDemo.java?rev=HEAD&only_with_tag=MAIN


I think so, but I haven't tested it.


-Noam.