> Do you want to display it in your own application?

Yes. I want to display the tag tree with some additional information.

And without the information on the source variant I can't do it.

> I also see my original reply was wrong, we do have the forceHexForm
> flag. However from what I see it is always false. We could set it to
> true here:
>
> public COSString(byte[] bytes)
> {
> this(bytes, false);
> }

So with the current implementation all COSString elements created by the parser 
are, when a document is saved, written in the string (...) notation and thus 
not in the original one - which would be a bug?

Thanks for being so patient
Stefan


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