Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:19:19 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <20140729231919.75DF2580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomiwUWHWYLdLcQAnp7QBmvQR2wfPoCy=eie-jrvyw0HfA@mail.gmail.com> 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> <CAETOPp0c1xfMj1vDvQRSoV3ec-LdJmyT9AFH02iziN0yuY1D-A@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomiwUWHWYLdLcQAnp7QBmvQR2wfPoCy=eie-jrvyw0HfA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:57:23 -0700, Adrian Chadd writes: >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. Exactly. >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. Yes. If the API is sufficiently expressive you can add others renderings if needed. I think the API proposed meets that criteria - with the open issue of wide char support (or perhaps UTF8) to be resolved.
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