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RE: Create XML


createxml
<sales-pitch>
This whole thread astounds me. If the APIs available for processing XML
on your platform of choice are so lacking that one can't do something as
basic as a write well-formed without a heavyweight API perhaps it is
time you moved to the .NET Framework. ;) 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxmlxmltext
writerclasstopic.asp 
</sales-pitch>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@j...] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: Rich Salz
> Cc: Uche Ogbuji; John Cowan; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Create XML
> 
> Rich Salz wrote:
> 
> > I didn't say it was easy.  I said it was disappointing that the 
> > average programmer can't just output a little bit of XML -- 
> a config 
> > file, for example -- without some heavyweight API.
> 
> I agree it's disappointing.  One of my regrets about XML is 
> that we didn't get rid of attribute normalization and I think 
> we should either have required > to be escaped everywhere or 
> should have allowed ]]> outside CDATA sections.
> 
> > That would mean, for
> > example, embedded returns -- unnormalized line-end -- are 
> out of scope 
> > for what I was talking about.
> 
> I don't understand why.  When I'm creating XML, some parts of 
> what I am creating may well have come from parsing an XML 
> document.  That means if there's any XML infoset that my 
> program cannot serialize correctly, it's potentially a bug.
> 
> James
> 
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