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Stefan Bodewig updated LOG4NET-5:
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Fix Version/s: 1.2 Maintenance Release
> Support layouts that generate XML instead of text
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> Key: LOG4NET-5
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-5
> Project: Log4net
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 1.2.9
> Environment: From sourceforge - 795051 - Curt Arnold
> Reporter: Nicko Cadell
> Fix For: 1.2 Maintenance Release
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> I recently wrote an appender to an destination that could
> only accept XML documents and a custom layout that
> implemented the specific schema that it accepted.
> Unfortunately, only at that point did I realized that
> FormatXml was protected.
> I've hacked my copy to make XmlLayoutBase.FormatXml
> public to allow me to acheive my objectives without adding
> the complexity of serializing to a string and then trying to
> fixup encoding or other issues or reparsing.
> The XmlLayoutBase.Format went through a huge amount of
> complexity to efficiently produce string representations from
> calls to FormatXml. While that code could be retained for
> compatibility with arbitary appenders, I think the following
> would be beneficial.
> 1. Introduce an Xml specific layout interface containing
> FormatXml (say IXmlLayout)
> 2. Have XmlLayoutBase implement IXmlLayout
> 3. Have the file appenders check if the layout supports
> IXmlLayout, if it does then create one XmlWriter for the file
> and only use IXmlLayout.FormatXml in Append.
> Curt Arnold
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