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Re: Create XML

• To: "Mayne, Peter" <PeterMayne@a...>
• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:45:56 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Mayne, Peter" <PeterMayne@a...> of "Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:43:57 +1000." <5E9DE07827946946A62B84765DE84D74015FFD42@s...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> > You should use an XML API to create/manipulate XML documents 
> > instead of raw string manipulation.
> 
> Why? No, seriously.
> 
> For small/simple XML documents such as the OP's, I tend to use a for loop
> and a few print statements (mod your favourite language) rather than
> dragging in XML libraries and adding more complicated code.

XML output is almost always more complex than you think at any given time.  
I'm sure that even having written a lot of XML output code, I haven't 
exhausted the realm of potential gotchas.  Using an XML API keeps the 
specialization where it belongs.

BTW, even though my article n the matter covers Python, I think a ot of the 
discussion is relevant to other languages as well:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/13/py-xml.html


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.h
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The commons of creativity - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x
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