serializing xml in java

[Uri]

Hi,
I am using apaches' XMLSerializer to serialize a DOM Document
as an OutputStream. 2 questions:
1) Is there a standard way of serializing XML(without using a specific
parser)?
2) Should there be any difference between explicitly setting the
OutputFormat
with "UTF-8" encoding or not setting it at all? from what I read the
default is "UTF-8" anyway, and the only difference would be the
"encoding" directive in the xml declaration. However, I am getting
different behavior in each case regarding the stream format(But I'm
still not sure it's the serializer and not something else). Is this
possible?

 

[Johannes Koch]

I am using apaches' XMLSerializer to serialize a DOM Document
as an OutputStream. 2 questions:
1) Is there a standard way of serializing XML(without using a specific
parser)?

In DOM 3 Load and Save (which is a W3C recommendation since 07 April
2004), there is a LSSerializer interface.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Uri wrote:

I am using apaches' XMLSerializer to serialize a DOM Document
as an OutputStream. 2 questions:
1) Is there a standard way of serializing XML(without using a specific
parser)?

Sort of and a bit convoluted: you can use the default transformer
created with
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newTransformer()
to serialize.