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

[Jos Backus]

On Jul 28, 2014 11:29 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 28 July 2014 23:03, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 28, 2014 10:57 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> >> 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?
> >
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> 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)

YAML has support for document streams, which might come in handy here :)

Jos

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