Re: 1.4.2 Release Candidate Available

robert burrell donkin <[email protected]> Tue, 6 May 2003 22:16:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ecs.user
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On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Robert Lowe wrote:

> Abre,
>
> Have you considered bypassing the output(java.io.OutputStream) method, and
> using the output(java.io.PrintWriter) overloading instead? That way you 
> get
> compete control of the encoding.

i think that abre was talking about the static method taking a 
ConcreateElement as a parameter in ConcreteElement. (hopefully he'll 
correct me if i'm wrong.)

<snip>

> Actually, I'm a little curious about why each element has its own codeSet
> property. It's not as if you'd ever want to specify different code sets 
> for
> different elements in a tree--at least, I can't think of any use for that.

i'm not sure (maybe stephen can answer that) but i'd say that it seems 
like a reasonable way to specify an encoding so that elements can write 
themselves

- robert