Github user bodewig commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/pull/22#discussion_r192369361
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+#region Apache License
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+#endregion
+
+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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The responsibility of the layout is formatting, I don't really see what an
additional formatter would do. Please note that we need to configure
`XmlWriter` in different ways for the "no namespace" and "with namespace" cases.
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