XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Consider a document like this:

<root xmlns="http://www.example.org/"; xmlns:pre="http://www.foo.com";>
  <a><b pre:c="bar"/></a>
</root>

Currently if you serialize just the a element by itself (which requires 
subclassing since the relevant method is not public) you get this:

<a><b pre:c="bar"/></a>

That is, you do not get the necessary namespace declarations. I am 
considering a change which would include the necessary namespace 
declarations in that case. i.e. the output would be:

<a xmlns="http://www.example.org/";><b pre:c="bar" 
xmlns:pre="http://www.foo.com"/></a>

There are some other changes that would affect exactly where and when 
particular content is written. For example some indentation logic would 
go into writeStartTag and writeEndTag instead of writeElement. 
Furthermore a start-tag might not actually be written until its the next 
node or its end was seen. None of these would affect the public API, 
only the protected API. Is anyone besides Wolfgang subclassing Serializer?

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