/Stephen Kestle/:
Of course it is because Characters should not need to specify encoding, but xml IS NOT a character stream - it's an encoded character stream [...]
Don't want to spam the list but: XML _is_ a character stream. The byte encoded representation is for transport means as most data in the computer world is stored as sequences of bytes. Your sentence seems to me like: "DOM is not an object, it is an 'encoded' XML stream".
Please stop the madness - just deprecate it and write a nice javadoc explaining why. You'll probably end up saving 1000s of developer hours on that change alone.
You know, I've thought of that many times too, but what if I need to write to a character buffer and not a byte one? I think it is just problem of the less experienced developers which doesn't realize what actually happens when encoding text to a byte stream and in particular serializing XML.
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