generating an XML file using Ada code

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

I'm working on syncing a database between Windows and Android. The Android framework for doing this requires a "changes" file, in either XML or JSON format.

So on the Windows side I need to log all db operations to either xml or json.

Using xmlada, I don't see any way to output a file; I searched for "Text_IO" in the installed library code, and found only input functions. One of the xml tutorials mentions the C function "xmlSaveFormatFile"; I can't find that in the Ada code.

This question has been asked before on this list, several years ago; I hope there is a better answer now.

How can I create an XML file?


For JSON, there is the GNATColl.JSON package, which provides a "Write" function that serializes a JSON object to a string. So I can use that, but I prefer XML (it feels more Ada-like :).

-- Stephe