I don't disagree with you but my Java guys are still having a cow over the issue. I'm hoping there is something I'm not setting up quite right in my XML::Writer calls that would solve this.
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And I would have figured the Java people would be all over XML standards. Or perhaps they aren't using a real parser and it doesn't work if you give it differently formatted data. Anyway, I think you're going to just end up either subclassing or forking XML::Writer. I'll bet its just a few lines that need changing - chek it out.