On Dec 4, 2005, at 6:07 AM, Kevin Menard wrote:
>> new XMLEncoder().encode(rootXmlTag, objects);
>
> Sorry, I've been extremely busy trying to get thesis work done.
> Anyway, time for me to chime in.
>
> The original static method was indeed "redundant", but it was
> provided because it was intuitively named and represented a very
> common action. John and I had worked through the API a bit and
> decided it really was a nice thing to have. I really would like to
> see it undeprecated.
See my reply to Cris. It is not only redundant, but also presents a
problem when more than one encoding algorithm is considered.
> There are some other API changes that I'm not sure really make
> sense either (e.g., having a public nodeToString() method).
It is not public.
Andrus
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