Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:30:53 -0700 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <CAETOPp1xcNZW1YdgVErZ2ngJM5D3p%2BL3HJHE2aKOvEvSh6Sh%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140729232338.40AA6580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> 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> <CAETOPp3zkpp4PY-CeA4Ei=r7_tw1S6rVYiniU%2BZxQF3PESVAxA@mail.gmail.com> <20140729232338.40AA6580A2@chaos.jnpr.net>
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On Jul 29, 2014 4:23 PM, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:03:55 -0700, Jos Backus writes: > >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 > > You cannot rely on being able to do that. > Routing tables can be "big" especially when encoded in xml ;-) > You certainly cannot wait for all of it to arrive before you start > rendering. Understood. This is why a serialization output format that supports streaming data is useful. Jos
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