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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:03:55 -0700
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>
Subject:   Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML
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On Jul 28, 2014 10:57 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Holy ... !
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> So if you want to win people over, just make sure it gets adopted
> throughout other tools. :)

Wouldn't the API be a way to build up an in-memory combination of lists and
maps in most cases, which then gets serialized out at emission time? Kind
of like calling object.to_yaml, where object is a Hash, but in C?

Jos

>
> -a



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