Re: [xml-dev] Best way to create an XML document

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Michael Glavassevich <>
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Mukul Gandhi <>
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2008-04-13T18:37:30Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Best way to create an XML document
"Mukul Gandhi" <> wrote on 04/12/2008 12:48:53 PM:

> 3) Here I am using the transformer functionality for creating XML,
> which looks more like a XSLT feature (i.e., transformation task).
> Should we not have this capability in the XML parser (for e.g., in
> Xerces)? Should we have something like xml-writer (which Rob pointed)
> built into Xerces (possibly as an enhancement)?

Xerces has been moving away from doing serialization [1] itself. Its native
SAX and DOM serializers are deprecated. Unlikely that we'll reverse that
decision.

[1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-6

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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