For the same reason we need XMLStreamWriterEx, it's clear that we need
XMLStreamReaderEx.
However, it's less clear to me how it should look like.
I first went to the getTextAsDataHandler() route (you can see it
commented out in the source file), but I then realized that this is
difficult to integrate into JAXB right now (and somewhat harder to
implement.)
So right now it's got just
CharSequence getText()
and if you look at the Base64Data class pointed from its javadoc, I hope
you see how it's trying to accommodate XOP needs.
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com