[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder.setExpandEntities

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>>  Jason, you're our resident servlet guru. Can we now consider getting
>>  rid of the XMLOutputter(Writer, ...) methods, or is there something
>>  I'm forgetting?
>
>Servlets have had a res.getOutputStream() method since the beginning, in
>fact before there was a res.getWriter(), but the use case in principally
>JSP where you only have access to a Writer.  A secondary use case is a
>servlet called within a RequestDispatcher include() where if the calling
>servlet used a Writer then you're stuck using a Writer.
>

Damn it. I knew there was something. I think what's really needed is 
a way for the Writer class to specify what characters it can handle. 
Unfortunately that's not something we can fix. Maybe it's worth an 
RFE at the JDC though.
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