RE: Appending to an XML document

The advantage of having the document be well-formed XML is that you can then
run it through just about any third party parser. I agree with Larry; this
is the root of the problem (or at least my problem since I want to use a
third party parser).
Thanks,
Ross

-----Original Message-----
From: uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 7:41 AM
To: Larry Watanabe
Cc: 'uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; Ingo Macherius; Ross Bleakney;
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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?


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