[jdom-interest] PROPOSAL: Remove most constructors from XMLOu tputter (was round trip XML)

[James Strachan]

> > I'd like to do this.  Can I have a straw poll on the following?
>

[snip]

> Howsabout:
>
> XMLOutConfiguration config = new XMLOutConfiguration();
>
> config.useNewlines("true");
> ....
> config.stripWhitespace("true");
>
> XMLOutputter out = new XMLOutputter(config);
>

I agree.

Also then the common configurations of the XMLOutputter could be declared as
final variables so thing like the following could be done:-

    XMLOutputter out = new XMLOutputter( XMLOutConfiguration.MINIMAL );

where the values could be

    MINIMAL, NORMAL, VERBOSE etc.

so common sets of configuration options such as (new lines + whitespace) can
be used as a single constructor argument.

Regards
James

James Strachan
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