From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 05:41:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 388FB5DD for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-by2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2lp0235.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.protection.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2B2C2B86 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from CO2PR05CA017.namprd05.prod.outlook.com (10.141.241.145) by CO2PR05MB731.namprd05.prod.outlook.com (10.141.228.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.995.14; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:41:41 +0000 Received: from BL2FFO11FD036.protection.gbl (2a01:111:f400:7c09::163) by CO2PR05CA017.outlook.office365.com (2a01:111:e400:1429::17) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.995.14 via Frontend Transport; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:41:41 +0000 Received: from P-EMF02-SAC.jnpr.net (66.129.239.16) by BL2FFO11FD036.mail.protection.outlook.com (10.173.161.132) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.990.10 via Frontend Transport; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:41:40 +0000 Received: from magenta.juniper.net (172.17.27.123) by P-EMF02-SAC.jnpr.net (172.24.192.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.146.0; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:41:40 -0700 Received: from chaos.jnpr.net (chaos.jnpr.net [172.21.16.28]) by magenta.juniper.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id s6U5fdn74109; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjg@juniper.net) Received: from chaos (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chaos.jnpr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE881580A2; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:41:38 -0700 (PDT) To: Garance A Drosehn Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML In-Reply-To: <448BB170-6DDC-442B-A5C5-973EC35FF7B9@rpi.edu> References: <20140725044921.9F0D3580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140728054217.AC1A0580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140728055336.GJ50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140729230345.31E9B580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <53D85495.4050408@mu.org> <448BB170-6DDC-442B-A5C5-973EC35FF7B9@rpi.edu> Comments: In-reply-to: Garance A Drosehn message dated "Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:19:39 -0400." 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Gerraty" X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82+cvs; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 22.3.1 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:41:38 -0700 Message-ID: <20140730054138.CE881580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-EOPAttributedMessage: 0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:66.129.239.16; CTRY:US; IPV:NLI; IPV:NLI; EFV:NLI; SFV:NSPM; SFS:(6009001)(189002)(199002)(76176999)(86362001)(81156004)(50986999)(57986006)(79102001)(50466002)(101356003)(87286001)(106466001)(77982001)(107046002)(93916002)(80022001)(104166001)(102836001)(93546004)(48376002)(105596002)(81542001)(93886003)(87936001)(110136001)(76482001)(33656002)(84676001)(77156001)(68736004)(99396002)(6806004)(81342001)(74662001)(31966008)(88136002)(74502001)(50226001)(102176002)(92566001)(85852003)(69596002)(62966002)(4396001)(46102001)(2171001)(95666004)(70486001)(97736001)(85306003)(76506005)(89996001)(64706001)(83072002)(90896003)(21056001)(92726001)(47776003)(20776003)(83322001)(42262001); DIR:OUT; SFP:; SCL:1; SRVR:CO2PR05MB731; H:P-EMF02-SAC.jnpr.net; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoDomainNonexistent; MX:1; LANG:en; X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID: X-Forefront-PRVS: 0288CD37D9 Received-SPF: SoftFail (protection.outlook.com: domain of transitioning juniper.net discourages use of 66.129.239.16 as permitted sender) Authentication-Results: spf=softfail (sender IP is 66.129.239.16) smtp.mailfrom=sjg@juniper.net; X-OriginatorOrg: juniper.net Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:41:50 -0000 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