Revision: 15885
          http://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/gate/?rev=15885&view=rev
Author:   ian_roberts
Date:     2012-06-12 12:00:41 +0000 (Tue, 12 Jun 2012)
Log Message:
-----------
Improved toXml JavaDoc to point out that in many cases it's better to use 
DocumentStaxUtils directly rather than calling toXml.

Modified Paths:
--------------
    gate/trunk/src/gate/Document.java

Modified: gate/trunk/src/gate/Document.java
===================================================================
--- gate/trunk/src/gate/Document.java   2012-06-12 01:28:47 UTC (rev 15884)
+++ gate/trunk/src/gate/Document.java   2012-06-12 12:00:41 UTC (rev 15885)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import gate.corpora.DocumentStaxUtils;
 import gate.event.DocumentListener;
 import gate.util.InvalidOffsetException;
 
@@ -130,7 +131,14 @@
   public Boolean getCollectRepositioningInfo();
 
   /** Returns a GateXml document. This document is actually a serialization of
-   *  a Gate Document in XML.
+   *  a Gate Document in XML. The <code>writeDocument</code> methods of
+   *  {@link DocumentStaxUtils} provide the standard implementation of this
+   *  serialization format which will work for any Document implementation.
+   *  Implementations of <code>toXml</code> will typically delegate to
+   *  <code>DocumentStaxUtils</code>, and in many cases it will be more
+   *  efficient for callers to use that directly rather than calling
+   *  <code>toXml</code>.
+   *  @see DocumentStaxUtils
     * @return a string representing a Gate Xml document
     */
   public String toXml();

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