From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T22:27:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25423] Re: ANN: REXML 1.1a3

Bob Hutchison wrote:


> Which are all "use cases" you need to be thinking about.


I even work with the concepts involved ;)

This was just a misunderstanding based on terminology, and it has been 
resolved already. (I thought DAB was talking about the package, when he 
was talking about the parser.)

I call a package of parser & manipulation API & writer: 'package', not 
'parser'.
So it's not the parser that writes out XML/some other format; the XML 
writer serializes a tree to XML.
The tree, or extracts/fragments of it, that the parser generates, can 
also be serialized using whatever writer, for example ones own.
An XML package should provide an XML writer, but doesn't have to provide 
other writers IMHO.

Tobi

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