Re: XML generator

["Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>]

"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
Agreed.

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

Right.  I just reviewed XML/Ada.  While there are facilities to read a text
file containing XML into a DOM tree (input_sources.file) there are currently
no sources to write the DOM tree as a text file.

If you contact ACT for support I'm sure they would be more than happy to put
something together.

> 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.
>

I don't know whether it would be an improvement over what you have, but
writing recursive routine to dump the content of a DOM tree producing a
valid XML file would (I think) be trivial.

SteveD

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