[jdom-interest] Ampersand question

[James Davies]

Hi Alex,

I'm sure you're right architecturally.  I think we should keep
'getSerializedForm' just for debugging, and (additionally) putting it in
separate debugging interface(s) would probably be cleaner.


    Regards,

    Jim

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Dr James G. Davies
Jacobus Systems Limited, London UK


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Chaffee" <guru at edamame.stinky.com>
To: "Jason Hunter" <jhunter at collab.net>
Cc: <tsasala at hifusion.com>; "JDOM Interests" <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Ampersand question


> > >         Shouldn't the getSerializedForm output &amp; instead
> > > of &?  The outputter class does special processing to output
> > > <, >, & as their escaped equivalents.  Am I missing something
> > > here?
> >
> > Yes, but there are 3 versions of that method right now (beta4, CVS,
> > Elliotte's web page) so which one has the problem?  :-)
>
> Any thoughts on my suggestion to remove getSerializedForm()
> altogether?  This would force people to use an XMLOutputter, with
> well-defined behavior, or roll their own.  Furthermore it would
> improve the separation between data and view.  "Serialized form" is a
> view and has no real business being in the data object.
>
>  - A
>
>
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