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   Re: [xml-dev] genx - abstract output

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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@reutershealth.com
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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