[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter naming questions

[Alex Chaffee]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:25:41PM -0700, Joseph Bowbeer wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that it's better to implement outputString
> using a StringWriter than a ByteArrayOutputStream?  Should be more
> efficient, right?  And should also make it clear to someone looking at
> the code how to get the StringBuffer more directly.

Interesting point.  I've never looked at the source code for
StringWriter but I imagine they did a better job. The reason I started
with a BAOS was just because I hadn't yet written the versions of
output(...) that take a Writer.

It gets complicated when I start thinking about encodings.  What if
the XMLOutputter tries to use a fancy character encoding and prints
funny bytes to a byte array, then when you call toString() won't it
interpret them as ASCII/Unicode and screw up?  Makes my head hurt.

I wonder what the author of Java IO has to say? :-) (I'm cc'ing the
list and Rusty in case they have something to say about encodings,
hope you don't mind.)

> When you've finished with your XMLOutputter mods, please let me
> know.  I want to use it.

I'll post a new diff today.

 - Alex

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