XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML

[Adrian Chadd]

On 28 July 2014 23:03, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2014 10:57 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at 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?
>

Not everything can be buffered like that over time. Time series data
may have stuff buffered up during an output / sample period (eg the
one a second output from vmstat 1)


-a