XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <201408011550.s71FoiQo003612 at idle.juniper.net>, Phil Shafer writes:
>"Simon J. Gerraty" writes:
>>Of course I wouldn't be surprised if the lib already handles all that ;-)
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>No, I can't manufacture memory on the fly ;^)
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>Hmmm... I could have an emergency mode where I stop trying to buffer
>and churn out a series of small write() calls to send close tags.
>Or perhaps just punting and refusing to write more once ENOMEM is
>seen is the right thing.

First of, this is not just ENOMEM, this is also invalid UTF-8 strings,
NULL pointers and much more bogosity.

>Seeing broken output is better than limping
>along with output that looks right but isn't.

The output should preferably be explicitly broken, so that nobody 
downstream mistakenly takes it and runs with it.


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