> I've been trying not to get involved in this question, but it's not working.
> Generating XML with printf's is not a really good idea. Build of tree of XML
> objects and serialize the sucker. Hand counting angle brackets if for the
> birds.
I didn’t look at the patch yet (now i did and see he already changed the
layout), but i asumme we all can agree that using a general XMLBuilder object
is a nicer solution.
> But all that said, I'm personally more comfortable with an initial handshake
> with a robust standard like XML. Bloated, sure, relative high parse cost,
> definition, but infinitely flexible and extensible.
> On a distantly related topic, I hereby apologize for XDR. It seemed like a
> good idea at the time, but...
Well, if you could foresee the future than many things would probably be
different.
Regards,
Arno
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