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

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-13 14:11:01

Peter Dimov a écrit :
> David Abrahams wrote:

>>>>     root.push_front(
>>>>         tag("articleinfo")[
>>>>              title ? (comment("This title was moved"), title) : NULL
>>>>            , tag("author")[
>>>>                  tag("firstname")["Joe"],
>>>>                  tag("surname")["Random"]
>>>>              ]
>>>>         ]
>>>>     )
>>> Interesting.  It doesn't look a lot like raw XML
>> Maybe that's the point ;-)
>>
>>> but it certainly integrates better into C++.
>> That too.
> 
> You're optimizing the wrong case, a toy example.

Its best usage is obviously for an XML template, where variables 
directly maps to the contents of an XML structure.

To do that, people usually invent pseudo-languages that integrate into 
XML, but then they end up duplicating full programming languages, with 
an even uglier syntax.

Being able to write an XML document and integrate it with C++ variables 
and logic is what that kind of stuff is for.