[Tclxml-users] Re: [tclxml] How to generate an XML document using TCL

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"Rajapurohit, Sunil" wrote:
> I need to generate an XML document using a tcl script, how do i
> go about generating the same ?

When creating XML, I generally use TclDOM.  Create a DOM tree in memory,
and then use 'dom::DOMImplementation serialize $doc' to generate the
XML.  The TclDOM package will make sure that the generated XML is 
well-formed.

Alternatively, XML is just text so there's no reason why you can't
just create the string directly.  Eg:

	puts "<document>$content</document>"

The problem with this is that (a) you have to worrying about the
XML syntax nitty-gritty and (b) the content variable may contain
special characters which you have to deal with.

There are also some generation packages available, like the 'html' 
package in tcllib (this will be added to TclXML RSN, when my 
workload permits).

Hope that helps,
Steve Ball

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