XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> The problem is that a Writer doesn't give you enough information to tell
> which characters need to be escaped and which don't. JDOM floundered on
> this shoal too, though they went the other way; serializing to writers
> but potentially producing malformed output. I'm not sure there's a
> good option here. :-(

If the Writer is an instance of StringWriter or CharArrayWriter, you
can safely use the full Unicode repertoire.  Otherwise, assume the ASCII
repertoire (even EBCDIC OutputStreamWriters implement that much).

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