AbstractSAXEventGenerator query

[Jack Park]

What might be the objections raised to turning this abstract class into 
a public one (in future distributions) for purposes of allowing others 
to write exporters in jackrabbit applications that have different 
behaviors? That would be done by externally extending this class. (I 
realize that, as a default, one can simply duplicate the code in this 
class externally).

As a for instance, I would prefer to be able to just export an arbitrary 
node (perhaps there is a way, but I haven't found it), and I'd prefer to 
have the namespace declarations not go with the first node exported, but 
instead, go with a set of declarations outside nodes.
And, I wouldn't mind a closing </node> tag (not available in an svn 
build from a month ago, possibly changed lately?)

Thanks.
Jack