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Tim Bray exposes his Unixocentrism thus: > Several people have said that there's an > impedance mismatch between FILE * and sockets. Weird, I try to talk to > sockets through files whenever possible, and with fflush(), FILE * > works fine. [snip] > The notion of transcoding XML *away* from UTF-8 seems highly bizarre. > But don't pipes provide a high-quality solution to 80% of the small > proportion of cases where you want to do further processing on the XML > on the way out? Unix good, Windows bad, in these cases. > If I were convinced of the 80% number, the argument would be over. > Because if genx hits an 80/20 point, I'll be more than happy. David > Tolpin & others have got me worried that the non-FILE * use cases are > more than that. "Make easy things easy, and hard things possible." -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@r... Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup, James Clark is as perennial as the grass. --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath
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