Github user dpsenner commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/pull/22#discussion_r192367542
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+
+using System;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Xml;
+using System.IO;
+
+using log4net.Core;
+using log4net.Util;
+
+namespace log4net.Layout
+{
+ /// <summary>
+ /// Layout that formats the log events as XML elements similar to the
log4j 1.2 schema
+ /// </summary>
+ /// <remarks>
+ /// <para>
+ /// Formats the log events according to the
+ /// http://logging.apache.org/log4j schema and actually puts the
+ /// elements into a namespace. This may break tooling that doesn't
+ /// handle XML using namespaces.
+ /// </para>
+ /// </remarks>
+ /// <author>Nicko Cadell</author>
+ public class XmlLayoutSchemaLog4jNS : XmlLayoutBaseNS
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So here we could actually really make use of a `XmlFormatter` class that
provides mechanisms to format logging events in various formats. To mention a
few we're already having today:
* log4j_1.2
* log4j_1.2_with_namespace
This could be provided by one and only one layout (XmlLayoutSchemaLog4j?)
which in turn can be configured to either be in format 1.2 or 1.2 with
namespaces etc.. This would also create a place for future 2.0 layouts to live
in. What do you think?
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