XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>]

On 09/01/2011 16:44, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>    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 asé
>
>    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
You could write a Java Writer that filters the output stream by looking 
at each character and converting it accordingly - so long as you know 
that special characters won't occur in element/attribute names, and so 
long as you don't care what happens in comments and processing instructions.

Michael Kay
Saxonica