Joseph Kesselman wrote:


Not all characters are legal in XML, so not all numeric character
references are legal.

The APIs don't generally check for illegal characters. Nor does the
serializer. So it's possible for an application to build, and write out, a
document which is not well-formed.


This is a major design flaw in DOM. XOM does not not have this problem. :-)

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