• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:23:22 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20030619194601.41C5813383E@b...>

> XML output is almost always more complex than you think at any given time.
> I'm sure that even having written a lot of XML output code, I haven't
> exhausted the realm of potential gotchas.

That's disappointing.

Developers should feel safe and comfortable generating XML with print
statements, knowing that only < and & are special. I'm sure (as your
article points out), it *can* be more complicated, but in most cases it
never needs be.

The problem with "just as an XML API" is that you usually have to build up
a DOM or Infoset or some such, and then call a serialization routine.
That's often ridiculously heavyweight for the task at hand.
	/r$

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