From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 03:22:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: 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 E2C80ADE; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-by2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2lp0240.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.240]) (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 731452ACE; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:22:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BY2PR05CA005.namprd05.prod.outlook.com (10.242.32.35) by DM2PR05MB733.namprd05.prod.outlook.com (10.141.178.18) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.995.14; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:22:44 +0000 Received: from BL2FFO11FD039.protection.gbl (2a01:111:f400:7c09::177) by BY2PR05CA005.outlook.office365.com (2a01:111:e400:2c2a::35) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.995.14 via Frontend Transport; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:22:44 +0000 Received: from P-EMF02-SAC.jnpr.net (66.129.239.16) by BL2FFO11FD039.mail.protection.outlook.com (10.173.161.135) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.990.10 via Frontend Transport; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:22:43 +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; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:22:42 -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 s6V3Men16865; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjg@juniper.net) Received: from chaos (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chaos.jnpr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F711580A2; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:22:40 -0700 (PDT) To: Garance A Drosehn Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML In-Reply-To: <82CFA67F-BA93-44EE-BD4B-9105F89AD157@rpi.edu> References: <20140725044921.9F0D3580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <82CFA67F-BA93-44EE-BD4B-9105F89AD157@rpi.edu> Comments: In-reply-to: Garance A Drosehn message dated "Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:37:54 -0400." From: "Simon J. Gerraty" X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82+cvs; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 22.3.1 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:22:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20140731032240.8F711580A2@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)(199002)(189002)(377424004)(87936001)(87286001)(2171001)(88136002)(31966008)(81156004)(106466001)(19580395003)(83322001)(76482001)(46102001)(19580405001)(6806004)(47776003)(89996001)(15975445006)(20776003)(84676001)(44976005)(92726001)(74502001)(74662001)(86362001)(92566001)(95666004)(85306003)(70486001)(105596002)(97736001)(104166001)(102836001)(93546004)(110136001)(107046002)(102176002)(80022001)(77156001)(69596002)(76176999)(21056001)(50226001)(77982001)(101356003)(57986006)(99396002)(15202345003)(90896003)(48376002)(83072002)(81342001)(85852003)(33656002)(50986999)(50466002)(64706001)(81542001)(68736004)(79102001)(62966002)(76506005)(93916002)(42262001); DIR:OUT; SFP:; SCL:1; SRVR:DM2PR05MB733; 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: 0289B6431E 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: arch@freebsd.org, marcel@freebsd.org, phil@juniper.net 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: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:22:54 -0000 On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:37:54 -0400, Garance A Drosehn writes: >Do you have links to the library itself? Not yet. >I'd suggest that the above isn't quite what one would want, either. >For the text version it's fine to have a time-of-day value as >'6:47PM', but if you're going for machine-readable output then Actually for machine readable output the most useful thing is the utc seconds. Eg (in case you don't have access to a Junos router): root@vjb5> show system uptime | display xml 2014-07-30 20:19:25 PDT etc. The patch to w(1) was mostly to demo the API I think. >It's hard to tell based on your sample output, but there's also >the question of truncating strings. In the text output of your >example, it obviously makes sense to truncate the 'WHAT' value >to 'ssh svl-junos-d026.juniper.net', but when printing the same >output in a machine-readable format you wouldn't want to truncate >it. Let the application which *reads* the data decide how many >characters *it* wants to use. Yes.