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

Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
Wed Jul 30 04:44:25 UTC 2014


On Jul 29, 2014 8:46 PM, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:30:53 -0700, Jos Backus writes:
> >> 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.
>
> Indeed; XML works fine for that.

Not to beat a dead horse, but so does YAML, and it's more lightweight/less
verbose so I personally find it more elegant. But sure, XML would work as
well.

Jos


More information about the freebsd-arch mailing list