RE: DOMString (was: xalan-c Problem with Xerces initialization)

[Arnold, Curt]

I'm definitely in favor of using erase() (to clear) and empty() (to check for 
zero length string) and against a static "null" string.  I've converted all of 
the = nulls and string == null's in a
previous personal variant and it wasn't all that bad.  I think it is one to 
just to bite the bullet and do right.