Re: Serialize DOM

["Tangi Vass" <tangivass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Two ways
>
> 1) if your DOM is ofTXDocument class then you can use method
> printWithFormat(Writer w)(sorry I am not sure of the name but it is
> there) avaible in TXDocument
> 2) See the code in DOMWriter available in samples directory I think
>
> By the way, there does not seem to be any formal way in DOM for
>
> a) creating an empty DOM
> b) reading from an XML
> c) writing out it as again as an XML
>
> Since DOM is "XML in memory" and XML is "serialized DOM" how come the
> relationship between the two is not defined at all.

Sun's implementation of DOM has a write(Writer) method to write a DOM tree
as XML.
I have been using it with LotusXSL 0.18.2 and that was very useful.
Alas, I couldn't make it work with newer versions of LotusXSL so I now use
XML4J too (but I didn't try the DOMWriter class).

Tangi Vass


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