Re: XML generator

[Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

> > On second thought, it can be used to WRITE
> > XML only if I provide the callbacks--which
> > are the very parts I was trying to avoid writing.
> 
> I belive this is only true if you're using SAX.  I think with DOM you can
> create the structures in memory and then make a single call to write the
> tree.

DOM is merely an allegedly language-independent
specification of features that must be available
in the internal representation.  Nothing about
writing out that I could see in the DOM spec.

And XML/Ada docs say that you'd have to write
callbacks to get anything out of a DOM tree.

What I am trying to do is avoid future bugs
in a tool that currently writes XML as little
independent pieces.  It has no concept of nesting
or of matching beginnings to ends, and so it's
very easy for a change to unintentionally make
the results invalid or malformed.

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau