RE: Attn Mike Kay (was using dom.Document as SAXON source)

["Robert C. Lyons" <boblyons@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The other problem I've encountered is with XMLEmitter, which calls
> > close() on the Writer it is using inside the endDocument() method.
> > I'm not sure if this is a good idea, mainly because that class is
> > not responsible for calling open() (or init()) in the first place.
> > It also prevents people from outputting more data using that writer.
> 
> This area has been problematic for a while, I've never quite 
> sorted out a
> satisfactory approach that works well in all cases. If I 
> don't close the
> writer, it sometimes doesn't get flushed and output is 
> therefore lost. If I
> do close it, it stops it being used again, ...

Michael,

Perhaps XMLEmitter should call flush(), but not close().

Bob

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