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

[Garance A Drosehn]

[apologies to Alfred, who will be seeing this twice...]

On 15 Aug 2014, at 10:44, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> Agree with kib.
>
> Kib, one thing that I just don't understand is the point of even being 
> able to query programs for libxo support. Does it make sense to you?


If I'm writing cross-platform scripts, then I'll want some way for the 
script to know which commands have machine-readable output, and which 
ones do not.  And unless we're going to implement machine-readable 
output in all base-system commands at once, then we're also going to 
have the issue that a command which does not do command-readable output 
today will suddenly start doing it tomorrow.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     drosih at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA