XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Ian Phillips <ianp AT ianp.org>]

Haven't really given this much thought, but off the top of my head…

> I never really planned for streaming serialization because I didn't
> think it was very useful. However people seem to keep asking for it,
> so maybe it's time to think about this.

Maybe like this:

serializer.startDocument("rootElement name")
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000000; ++i) {
    serializer.write(createNodeWithRandomContent());
}
serializer.endDocument()

?

Or maybe with something that has an efficient (== small) in memory 
representation but an inefficient (== defined by an external standard) XML 
representation?

I'm not sure, but I can think of examples where it would be useful.

Also, perhaps, writing out the contents of a DB (embedded or otherwise) to 
disk in XML format - what happens if the DB is fairly large?

Cheers,
Ian.

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