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<p><tt>>>>No, you can't. In order for this to be a reasonable assumption, you <br>
need at least three other conditions:<br>
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1. No one else and nothing else writes data into that database.<br>
2. The data written into the database had been verified for <br>
well-formedness; e.g. that it does not contain nulls.<br>
3. The database does not modify the data; for instance by turning <br>
linefeeds into NELs.<<<</tt><br>
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<tt>1. Agree, but this is the case</tt><br>
<tt>2. Agree again, but when generated from an exiting JDOM, you should trust it!</tt><br>
<tt>3. Database is stored as a BLOB and not a CLOB, so that nothing as been changed by the RDBMS. This ensures that the encoding is not broken.</tt><br>
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<tt>Again, it is up to the user to know what he is doing.</tt><br>
<tt>A good library should let a user extends it without having to change the internals. Integrating a StAX builder is not only a JDOM 1.1 task, but anyone who need, for any reason, should be able to build it.</tt><br>
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