XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[David Collier-Brown <davec-b AT rogers.com>]

  I'm starting a mini-project to get some input documents into a good,
editable xml.
One of the things I desire to do is write entities in their symbolic
form, so that a
non-breaking space will be written as   and e-acute as é

  This is in principle doable by sending the output not through a
serializer, but instead
a through an xslt processor that uses a list of character-maps which in
turn enumerate
the entire list of entities from my DTD.
  However, thus looks a lot like "going via Snarey's Corners", a term
from my
childhood symbolizing going insanely far out of one's way to do something.

  Is there a simple, straightforward and perhaps even elegant way
to produce output containing symbolic entities?

--dave


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