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

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 7/28/14 11:29 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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)
Yup, exactly!

This is very much needed and will be part of the gsoc project being 
worked on.

-Alfred
>
> -a
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