Re: [boost] RFC: Boost.XML API prototype in the sandbox

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-12 14:26:00

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Thu Jul 12 2007, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov-AT-pdimov.com> wrote:

...

>>>>>   I find XML horrible to read, however I find most of the
>>>>>   procedural
>>>>>   code I've seen for manipulating it even more horrible.

...

>> You're optimizing the wrong case
>
> I don't know about that.  The kind of interface used above has become
> very popular in the Python world... because it's useful.  It may not
> cover the entire domain of XML manipulations well, but it does cover
> an important corner.

Maybe it is, maybe it does. But you are still optimizing the wrong case; 
horrible procedural code for creating a toy XML. Now, if you find the code I 
posted horrible, that'd be another matter. :-)