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Tim Bray scripsit: > 1. The sweet spot for XML is interchange, and FILE * is a nice general > basis for almost all kinds of interchange. > 2. If you're going to build an XML instance in memory, wouldn't it be > more natural to pull together a DOM or your own private data structure > and then serialize it in one fell swoop? Not necessarily. For example, if I want to write to a non-UTF-8 file stream, then I could write via UTF-8 abstract output and use convert() to fix things up. > 3. This lowers the barrier-to-entry to implementers, who are going to > see genxStartDocument(genxWriter w, FILE * file) and say "oh yeah I > know what to do" as opposed to having to figure out another flavor of > I/O abstraction and write a stub of some kind. A simple implementation strategy would be to keep the FILE * argument, but also provide a call to set/get an output handler, to be invoked only if the FILE * argument is NULL. That makes easy things easy and hard things possible. -- Principles. You can't say A is John Cowan <jcowan@r...> made of B or vice versa. All mass http://www.reutershealth.com is interaction. --Richard Feynman http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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