* Marc Haber: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:47:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Marc Haber: >> > please flexibilize the output format. The current options are fine, >> > but it would be nice to have more fine-grained control over output >> > format. The current formats could be mapped into combination of output >> > "atoms", with the current definitions being defaults. That way, a >> > local admin could define their own formats. >> >> Would XML output be acceptable? Based on that, you could use various >> other tools to transform the output to the format you need. > > For me, it would be unuseable, since I have not yet found the time to > grok the "various other tools" yet.
You should investigate xmlstarlet. For non-trivial tasks, cDuce seems to be a useful alternative to XSLT. > But it certainly is a modern and buzzword compliant way to output > data in a machine-readable flexible way. If you describe the syntax and semantics of a simpler scheme than XML which serves your purposes better, I might implement it. Designing the template language is the hard part, though, and it looks way overkill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
