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Re: Create XML

• To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:19:59 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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I don't know the size of the OS and .NET framework on your cellphone, so 
can't really judge on that point. Rotor appears to be nothing more than 
a PR campaign, since it's only licensed for research use yet is 
continually brought up by MS representatives to "show" that C# is 
cross-platform. Mono lists this class as 90% complete, so that at least 
sounds like it's a usable implementation on non-Windows platforms.

Outside of the MS and C# framework there are actually many different XML 
writing APIs available, as most people on this list are well aware. I 
work primarily in Java, so I'm mainly aware of those choices. The 
XMLWriter class from David Megginson 
(http://www.megginson.com/Software/xml-writer-0.2.zip) is a nice 
lightweight API that has the advantage of also accepting SAX-style 
events as input. The XMLPull XmlSerializer pointed out earlier is also 
another good alternative, though I like the convenience methods provide 
by XMLWriter.

  - Dennis

Joshua Allen wrote:

>.NET XmlWriter works fine on my cellphone, and also works on Unix (Rotor
>on FreeBSD, Mono on Linux has a quite complete implementation).
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:dms@s...] 
>Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:57 AM
>To: Dare Obasanjo
>Cc: xml-dev@l...
>Subject: Re:  Create XML
>
>So .NET (including the required recent Windows implementation it runs 
>on) doesn't count as a heavyweight API? Coulda fooled me...
>
>  - Dennis
>
>"We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down
>
>the throats of our users" -
>Paul Maritz, Microsoft Group VP of Platforms and Operations, 1997
>(but referring to a few megabytes of Java class library, not to Windows 
>2000, XP, etc.)
>
>Dare Obasanjo wrote:
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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
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>as
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>>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/frlrfsystemxmlxmltex
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>t
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>>writerclasstopic.asp 
>></sales-pitch>
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