ANN: XML EZ Out 1.00

ANN: XML EZ Out 1.00

[Marc A. Criley]

XML EZ_Out is a small set of packages intended to aid the creation of
XML-formatted output from within Ada programs.  It basically wraps the
tags and data provided to it with XML syntax and writes them to a
user-supplied medium.

This medium can be any sort of writable entity, such as a file, a
memory buffer, or even a communications link, such as a socket.  The
only functionality required of the medium is that it supply a
meaningful "Put" (for writing a string) and "New_Line" procedure.

XML EZ Out is available at http://www.mckae.com/xml_ezout.html.

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The key facilitator of making XML EZ_Out usage readable when
generating XML documentation is the overloading of a number of
variations of the "=" function.  By doing this, a simple XML element
having no content, such as:

<player lastName="Cuddyer" firstName="Michael" team="Twins"/>

can be generated as:

Output_Tag(F,
	   "player",
	   ("lastName"  = "Cuddyer",
	    "firstName" = "Michael",
	    "team"      = "Twins"));

To simplify the specification of the attributes, variations of "=" are
provided.  Given these declarations:

     Batting_Average : Float;
     At_Bats         : Natural;

One can directly reference the variables:

Output_Tag(F,
            "stats",
	   ("battingAvg" = Batting_Average,
             "atBats"     = At_Bats));


Hope this is useful, have fun.

Marc A. Criley
www.mckae.com