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Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:11:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] XML
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Lately I've been told at work to use a library in C. Most calls have
the signature
ErrorType function(const char *xml);

I have to pass to them xmls of more than two levels deep, attributes,
and around ten elements.

When I asked why such interface to a library, claiming that it was
uncomfortable to me, the lib developer told me that in fact
xml-parameter-passing was one of the techniques he liked most, and
helped him solve a lot of problems easily.

2007/5/23, Llu=EDs Batlle <viriketo@gmail.com>:
> I find that most of the tree-like information I want to store in a fd
> fits well on OGDL (1st layer). I think Forsyth was working on a OGDL
> parser in limbo - I don't know if he finished or stopped thinking on
> it.
>
> I wrote my own in c++, and I used a j2me implementation given in the
> OGDL main site - them both work fine.
>
> 2007/5/22, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>:
> > to throw a spaniard in the works (never was good at mangling metaphors)
> > i use XML to store midi patches and configs.  as a human never edits
> > them directly (the pre-existing library does that) it was a good choice=
.
> > i considerered an ndb approach, and S-expressions, but i like what i go=
t.
> >
> > i could have invented a file format and implemented it but i chose not =
to.
> >
> > you wouldn't want to read or write any configuration for something
> > with a thousand params  but programs do it fine.
> >
> > brucee
> >
> > On 5/23/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> > > however, one end would be *heading* north.  the other would be
> > > *heading* south.
> > >
> > > - erik
> > >
> >
>