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<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> -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM You will always find something in the last place you look. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > -----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 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > >
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