Whole document vs. node values

George · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 198

JPM · *nix forums beginner Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

I want to deal with whole documents exclusively. When I fetch an
XmlValue from a result set I need to get the entire document as either
an InputStream or a string. It seems the only way to do this is as
follows:

value.asDocument().getContentAsString();

Is this an efficient way of getting the whole document? Is it parsed by
the asDocument and then serialized back out by the
getContentAsString()? This does not seem to be the case from what I saw
poking around the C++ code. I would just like a little confirmation
that I am doing this the best way. Also am I best off setting
nodeContainer to false if I want to deal exclusivly with whole
documents?

Thanks

Google