Re: [xml-dev] XMLOut - generating xml from programs

[Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>]

Hi Liam,

Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> writes:

> I gave a talk at Balisage this year about providing APIs for writing XML
> from non-XML data in languages such as C, PHP and Perl (and maybe java),
> as well as JavaScript.

Tim Bray created a C library for generating XML some time ago:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/02/20/GenxStatus

It is somewhat abandoned now (there hasn't been any updates
since 2004) but it is reasonably complete. We have been using
it for some time now and have added a number of improvements
(e.g., pretty-printing) and fixed a few issues. We can probably
share these if there is interest.

It doesn't have the printf-style API you described in the blog
post (without seeing any use cases, I will reserve my judgements
about whether it is a good idea or not). But you can probably
use genx as a base and perhaps as a lower-level API if/when the
user needs more flexibility.

Boris

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