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On 8/14/14, 10:36 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:44:34 -0700, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>> I don't understand the need to query these programs for support of the
>> option.
> It's very simlpe.  You run app A and tell it to output XML.
> App A needs to run app B, and needs to know if it can output valid XML
> or whether all its output needs to be wrapped/escaped.
> Failure to handle this will result in garbage.
>
>
Sure that is fairly simple, but where will that really even be needed in 
practice right now?

It seems fairly contrived, for what use case?

Something like "find / --type libxo --exec {} \;"  ?   Or something real?

This really seems to be going off the deep end of over engineering.

How many programs have been successfully converted over to libxo at this 
point?

-Alfred