[jdom-interest] SAXOutputter

[Chris B.]

Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

>JDOM already has SAXOutputter.output(List) for outputing fragments. 
>

Anything that has start/end Document is by definition not a fragment, as 
far as I can see.

>I don't think Chris's use case is a common enough 
>

Well I can't prove if it is common, but it seems a very useful thing to 
be able to do to me.

>one to warrent another
>method that does basically the same thing as a existing one. 
>

But it doesn't do the same thing. If anything the existing output() 
methods are redundant since the user can easily call start/endDocument 
himself. But uncalling them is not so easy. If people are dealing only 
with full Documents, shouldn't they be using output(Document)?

>Plus, there is a workaround. 
>

Which is certainly a departure from JDOM's claim to be easy and 
intuitive to use.

>But given a choice, I'd rather see the behaviour of
>output(List)/output(Content) changed than the two outputFragment methods
>added.
>
>Brad
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