Re: [Tcllib-devel] XML generation

[Lars H. <Lar...@re...>]

Andreas Kupries skrev:
> Having read this I now also see that the _xml.tcl I mentioned in my 
> first mail is more of a low level generator which would be driven by 
> such data structures. Assembler in essence, versus your HLL.
> 
> The xmlgen/htmlgen refeenced on your pages are much more comparable to 
> the _xml.tcl

Having looked at _xml.tcl myself, I'd summarise the differences roughly 
as follows:

_xml.tcl is indeed "assembler", in that it generates start- and 
end-tags separately (though with some facilities for automating closing 
of elements). xmlgen and my procedures are higher level, which make it 
more difficult to mess things up, but probably also increases memory 
requirements.

A difference between my approach on one hand and that of _xml.tcl and 
xmlgen on the other is however that the former (re)encodes an existing 
data structure as XML, whereas the latter generate it on the fly; a 
[trace] of one's program when using these two will correspond fairly 
directly to the structure of the XML being generated.

Lars Hellström