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If a log file can't easily be represented as a well-formed XML document, then that does indicate a problem with the spec. The XML spec does say that it should be straigthforwardly usable; I don't think external parsed entities are a straightforward way of doing a simple operation such as append. For someone who has to write a log file now with the current spec, either of the proposed solutions should be fine (not maintaining the logfile as a well-formed XML document or using external parsd entities). -Larry Watanabe > -----Original Message----- > From: uche.ogbuji@f... [SMTP:uche.ogbuji@f...] > Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 10:41 AM > To: Larry Watanabe > Cc: 'uche.ogbuji@f...'; Ingo Macherius; Ross Bleakney; > xml-dev@i... > Subject: Re: Appending to an XML document > > > The decision to make an XML document contain just a single element is > the > > root of the problem. Perhaps the specification for future versions could > > accept multiple elements in a single document. This would make > concatenation > > simple and has worked well in the lisp world which operates on similar > > structures (s-expressions) both for representation of program and data. > > While this may be the root of other problems, and I do not claim to vouch > for > all such problems, it is _not_ the root of the particular problem in > question. > I see no reason why the log file must be a well-formed XML document. Can > you > tell me what is wrong with just treating it as an external parsed entity? > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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