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

[Garance A Drosehn]

On 30 Jul 2014, at 21:37, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>
> [...]   if you're going for machine-readable output then
> you'd want that in some format which was much more specific and
> *standard* (as opposed to arbitrary pretty-printed strings).
> Something like the ISO 8601 format used in obscure parts of lpd:
>
> #define LPD_TIMESTAMP_PATTERN    "%Y-%m-%dT%T%z %a"

> Or you could follow the example of EDN, and use rfc-3339-format
> (see '#inst' at https://github.com/edn-format/edn).  The nice
> thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

I should note that these two formats are very similar, and in fact
may be exactly the same.  I kept meaning to see if there was any
difference between them.  I just noticed that the rfc has the 'Z'
suffix as an option for a timezone, and I don't think that the ISO
one does.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     drosih at rpi.edu
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