David Abrahams wrote:
Okay, this is going to sound very opinionated:
I find XML horrible to read, however I find most of the procedural code I've seen for manipulating it even more horrible.
Agreed. Much of the time, I find myself defining wrapper RAII classes to handle the tags.
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root.push_front( tag("articleinfo")[ title ? (comment("This title was moved"), title) : NULL , tag("author")[ tag("firstname")["Joe"], tag("surname")["Random"] ] ] )
I like this syntax; it was a little awkward for me at first, but it's grown on me. Would this allow you to also save a "template" for later modification? Something like: tag articleinfo = tag("articleinfo") [ tag("author") [ tag("firstname") [""], tag("surname") [""] ] ]; ... articleinfo["author"]["firstname"] = "Joe"; articleinfo["author"]["surname"] = "Random"; I would find this use case to be handy. -- John Moeller fishcorn@gmail.com