[jdom-interest] end-of-line character

[Alex Chaffee]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:48:29AM -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 1:11 AM -0700 7/6/00, Alex Chaffee wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:06:11PM -0700, Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> >Let's make it an option.  XMLOutputter should have a
> >"setLineEnding(String)" method; that should extract a char[] and stash
> >it in an instance var like the code I posted, for efficiency.
> >
> 
> That's reasonable, though I'd prefer to store it as a string.

Yay! Now we're getting somewhere. Store it however you like; I vaguely
remember char[] being quicker to write() but I could be smoking crack.

Your reasoning about avoiding networking bugs makes perfect sense.  As
long as it's settable, and as long as the setLineEnding() Javadoc
contains the following code, I withdraw my objections.

	For reasons X,Y,Z (Rusty fill in here), XMLOutputter uses \r\n
	by default.  If you need a
	different line-ending string, set it here.  If you need to
	output files conforming to the line-ending conventions of the
	local operating system, use
	outputter.setLineEnding(System.getProperty("line.separator")).

Heh, I just called English "code"... :-)

 - Alex

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