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Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>
To: davecb AT spamcop.net, XOM API for Processing XML with Java <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:22:50 -0500

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, David Collier-Brown <davec-b AT rogers.com>
wrote:

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

No, there isn't.

Writing an editor is the one major use case that is explicitly outside
the goals of XOM (and implicitly outside the goals of every other
major XML API).

If you're going to write an editor you probably need to start by
writing your own parser and libraries, because the usual ones just
don't support this use case.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT ibiblio.org

[XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities, David Collier-Brown, 01/09/2011
- Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities, Michael Kay, 01/09/2011
- Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 01/09/2011
  - Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities, David Collier-Brown, 01/09/2011
    - Re: [XOM-interest] What's an elegant way to write symbolic entities, Tatu Saloranta, 01/10/2011