On 08/22/2011 10:42 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> 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.
>
> I've blogged a bit about it and this week have set aside a little time
> to work more on it. It's not a W3C effort particularly (at least not
> now) but there was enough positive feedback from Balisage and elsewhere
> that it seems worth doing more.
>
> The goal is to make it easier to generate well-formed XML from non-XML
> data in programs - so, not serializing a DOM tree, and not doing data
> binding, and not a templating engine..., but helping people write conf
> files, RSS, Web pages, whatever, from programs.
>
> Want to help?
>
> http://www.barefootliam.org/xml/20110822-xmlout-making-an-api-for-creating-xml-from-programs
FWIW, WAX is a fantastic API for writing XML, I liked it so much i did
the JS implementation.
http://java.ociweb.com/mark/programming/WAX.html
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