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This whole thread astounds me. If the APIs available for processing XML
on your platform of choice are so lacking that one can't do something as
basic as a write well-formed without a heavyweight API perhaps it is
time you moved to the .NET Framework. ;)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxmlxmltext
writerclasstopic.asp
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: Rich Salz
> Cc: Uche Ogbuji; John Cowan; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Create XML
>
> Rich Salz wrote:
>
> > I didn't say it was easy. I said it was disappointing that the
> > average programmer can't just output a little bit of XML --
> a config
> > file, for example -- without some heavyweight API.
>
> I agree it's disappointing. One of my regrets about XML is
> that we didn't get rid of attribute normalization and I think
> we should either have required > to be escaped everywhere or
> should have allowed ]]> outside CDATA sections.
>
> > That would mean, for
> > example, embedded returns -- unnormalized line-end -- are
> out of scope
> > for what I was talking about.
>
> I don't understand why. When I'm creating XML, some parts of
> what I am creating may well have come from parsing an XML
> document. That means if there's any XML infoset that my
> program cannot serialize correctly, it's potentially a bug.
>
> James
>
>
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