[jdom-interest] SAXOutputter

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:23 PM +0200 4/19/04, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

>Attached is a patch proposal that modifies SAXOutputter to :
>- make startDocument and endDocument protected final

Will that work? I don't think you can override a public method with a 
protected one, but maybe its different because ContentHandler is an 
interface being implemented rather than a class being subclassed?

>- add a new public method output(Content) to output a single Content node
>- add two new protected methods output(List/Content, boolean 
>fireDocumentEvents)
>
>The last two methods support not firing start/endDocument events when
>fireDocumentEvents is set to false. These methods are protected on purpose :
>To use them, one needs to subclass SAXOutputter which allows to add the logic
>to invoke startDocument and endDocument.

Sounds mighty complex to me. I don't think the added complexity is 
worth it for this edge case.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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