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Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>
To: XOM API for Processing XML with Java <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:40:32 +0000

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:54 AM Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting.
>
> I imagine it was done for space saving, though that's largely redundant
> with the changes to the String implementation in Java 9.
>

Good to know. This decision could certainly be revisited in a future
release once Java 9+ is more common. (Right now the numbers i see peg
Java 8 at ~75% of uses.) I don't think it would change the API at all.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT ibiblio.org

[XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data, Michael Whapples, 01/20/2021
- Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 01/20/2021
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data, Michael Whapples, 01/20/2021
- Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data, Michael Kay, 01/20/2021
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 01/20/2021
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Question about Text and how it stores data, Michael Whapples, 01/20/2021