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Re: Create XML

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• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:28:03 -0700
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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.

Who says you need a heavyweight API?  A lightweight one
is even easier to use than print statements or string
concatenation.

> That would mean, for
> example, embedded returns -- unnormalized line-end -- are out of
> scope for what I was talking about.
> 
> > <!DOCTYPE doc [
> > <!ENTITY e "<?x y&#13;?>">
> > ]>
> > <doc>&e;</doc>
> 
> Tough, but not even close to what the original topic was.

I believe that this example is actually _impossible_
to reserialize from an infoset (unless you reconstruct
the original entity declaration.)


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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