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Subject: Re: Massive libxo-zation that breaks everything
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
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On Mar 1, 2015, at 09:25, Harrison Grundy =
<harrison.grundy@astrodoggroup.com> wrote:
> Due to the lack of XML parsing code in -base, the difficulty in
> maintaining yet another interface, and the overhead involved in doing
> it, I don't quite see where one would really want XML output *and* be
> entirely opposed to ports or packages.

You're already too late.  Everything's already in base:

man libbsdxml
man libxo

--
Rui Paulo