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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tolpin" <dvd@davidashen.net>
> Tim,
>
> rant:
> many comments sent are making genx.h more complex. My feeling is that it is already
> at the required level of complexity or above, and should be kept as simple or
> made simpler.
David,
If you look closely its not that bad. These are the basic suggestions for
"additional" features I have seen:
- Abstract output call-back (you have suggested something more complex as well)
- Optional escaping of illegal characters (especially when it does not change anything).
This only requires an option getter/setter, but does not make the API
more complex, as it is all about internal behaviour.
- Option to turn off encoding and name checking
(could be done with same option getter/setter as above)
- Pretty printing support (even the supposedly very simple XML::Writer
Perl API that was mentioned, has this)
- Allow for setting a custom free (and realloc) in addition to alloc
- Writing of raw (unchecked) data (part of XML::Writer)
- Writing of short form empty elements (part of XML::Writer)
- Writing of CDATA sections (have different checking/escaping rules)
- Writing of XML declaration (part of XML::Writer)
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- Writing of DTD declarations
(the XML::Writer API has a function to write a DocType declaration)
- Some access to internal namespace tracking information
Except for the last two this is not much added complexity.
Karl
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