[jdom-interest] SAXOutputter
Bradley S. Huffman
hip at cs.okstate.edu
Thu Apr 22 08:26:10 PDT 2004
Laurent Bihanic writes:
> No, output(List) *may* lead it ill-formed documents if the top-level list
> objects are not legal at the document level (e.g. Text or CDATA nodes,
> multiple Element nodes, etc.). If the list is made of a single Element plus
> PIs and Comments, the outputted XML is well-formed.
>
> output(Content) would output well-formed XML only if the node is an Element.
> In any other case, the output is ill-formed. Thus, while
> outputFragment(Content) is OK, output(Content) is not and should be changed
> into output(Element) (if we decide to add such a method).
Well if output is for well-formed only, then do you suggest deprecating
output(List)? Leaving the 3 core methods
output(Document)
output(Element)
outputFragment(Content)
Brad
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