Re: [boost] [GSoC 07] Visualizing STL

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-16 06:02:35

Jake wrote:
> I want to know if people would want me to spend some of
> the time of this project making the "svg" class act as a stand-alone
> (yet not fully implemented, obviously) SVG solution.

I would appreciate a smart, concise way to format XML output.  Maybe 
some operator-overloading would help?  Whether or not this would be 
useful to you in this project, may I encourage other readers to suggest 
how it could be done?  And no I don't want an implementation of the 
standard DOM: it is much too verbose.

Here's a completely fabricated example.  To generate:

<rootnode name="r">
   <subthing>Hello</subthing>
   <subthing>World</subthing>
</rootnode>

how about:

cout << node("rootnode")(
           attribute("name","r"),
           node("subthing")(text("Hello")),
           node("subthing")(text("World"))
         );

Phil.