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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:37:00 -0000
From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: Felix Lee <felix.1@canids.net>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB/XMI (XML Machine Interface)
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:19:58PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>:
> > Oh, come on.  That's why I suggested writing a library that parses the
> > MI and outputs XML.  You run that as a wrapper around GDB; that's real
> > easy.
> 
> oh, right.  ok, that works for me.
> --

I think there are other benefits of working with XML. Basically, people
that want to use GDB for a small part of there project, could quickly
write some code to get GDB to give a backtrace, or perform some other
activity. I believe  that making GDB output XML would almost make it
scriptable. Someone writing in perl or java could quickly conjure up
some commands and parse the output of GDB in a matter of minutes.

This will never happen with MI.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi