Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:41:38 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Garance A Drosehn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <20140730054138.CE881580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <448BB170-6DDC-442B-A5C5-973EC35FF7B9@rpi.edu> References: <20140725044921.9F0D3580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <CAETOPp13H7kyLy-1VJRDOsDbOh8A1MWZDxw1xHUBsxTRtMfc7g@mail.gmail.com> <20140728054217.AC1A0580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140728055336.GJ50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <CAETOPp3hJB8Gj%2BPMj3N951krnNqCYiAOY-cPHxMCBy1CQXWJaQ@mail.gmail.com> <A1E63A7A-BB38-4CC3-B5EC-B251BE990572@mail.turbofuzz.com> <20140729230345.31E9B580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <53D85495.4050408@mu.org> <448BB170-6DDC-442B-A5C5-973EC35FF7B9@rpi.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:19:39 -0400, Garance A Drosehn writes: >One question that comes up is how to organize the data in the output the >command creates. For instance, my experiment is just trying to mimic a Good point and frankly a good reason to have the work done by someone who's been doing exactly that sort of thing (successfully) for well over a decade. >I personally don't expect unix commands to output HTML, and I find XML a >bit >unwieldy to work with. But in my own bikeshed I'm interested in formats Both are horrendous formats ;-) but there are abundent tools to work with them and json too I believe. A modern browser with off the shell javacript/json "thingies" (you can tell I'm not a web developer ;-) can allow some very slick stuff with the sort of info we can output from our UI - and this lib let's any app do the same thing. --sjg
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