XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Hughes, Rob" <hughes AT fgm.com>]

Wolfgang,

   I tried your work-around and it does seem to work. But I think I am
missing something. What if someone wanted to use the streaming StAX API
and wanted to preserve CDATA sections? Wouldn't they be unhappy with the
CDATA sections being removed?

>From other posts I have read, it seems the argument goes that CDATA
sections are just syntax sugar. I agree with the argument, but in this
case I am left with the uncomfortable feeling that things just happened
to work out in my favor.  I'll gladly take the performance gain though.

--Thanks, Rob 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Hoschek [mailto:wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:34 PM
> To: Hughes, Rob
> Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Control output of CDATA sections
> 
> If the receiving side of the pipe can't be fixed, a 
> work-around would be to use the StreamingStaxSerializer class 
> in combination with a StAX implementation such as woodstox. 
> It converts XOM's CDATASection objects to StAX character 
> events, which correspond to XOM text nodes.  
> A benefitial side effect of doing so with woodstox would be 
> that serialization is at least twice as fast as with the 
> normal nu.xom.Serializer (measured using no pretty printing).
> 
> See http://dsd.lbl.gov/nux/api/nux/xom/io/StreamingSerializer.html
> 
> Example usage:
> 
> nu.xom.Document doc = ...
> OutputStream out = ...
> XMLStreamWriter writer = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance 
> ().createXMLStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8"); StreamingSerializer 
> ser = new StreamingSerializerFactory 
> ().createStaxSerializer(writer); ser.write(doc); out.close();
> 
> Wolfgang.
> 
> On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Hughes, Rob wrote:
> 
> > Is there a property on the XOM serializer to instruct it 
> not to output 
> > CDATA sections?
> >
> > I have an application where the XML instance documents are 
> not allowed 
> > to contain CDATA sections. As a result, it is important for 
> me control 
> > this aspect of the serializer.
> >
> > --Thank You, Rob
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