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Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON
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Holy ... !

What really matter is whether the library API that you're going to
shoehorn into plenty of utilities is expressive enough to express a
whole bunch of different output types.

So it doesn't matter if you want JSON, or YAML, or XML, or the native
tool output. The trick is whether the library API is good enough.

So if you want to win people over, just make sure it gets adopted
throughout other tools. :)


-a