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genx: FILE *

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• Subject: genx: FILE *
• From: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:11:30 +0400 (AMT)
• In-reply-to: <A03C8438-4C8C-11D8-905C-000A95A51C9E@t...>

> Right now genx does output to a FILE *.  Several have suggested that it 
> should do output via an abstracted callback.  This sounds kind of 
> seductive, and is indeed much more general, and would be no biggie to 
> implement, but the more I think about it the less I like it.  So at the 
> moment I'm leaning to sticking with FILE * for the following reasons:
> ... 
> So this would be a good time to say "I'd use genx for XXX, but if it 
> sticks with FILE * I'm not going to be able to use it because of YYY".

I'd use genx for streaming XML through sockets, but it sticks with FILE *.
I'm not going to be able to use it efficiently because of the overhead
and different blocking model.

David Tolpin

• References:
  • genx - abstract output
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>

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