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

[Jos Backus]

On Jul 29, 2014 4:23 PM, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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