Re: Massive libxo-zation that breaks everything

On 1 March 2015 at 22:10, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2015-03-01 13:49, Harrison Grundy wrote:
> > Thanks!
> >
> > That does seem useful, but I'm not sure I see the reasoning behind
> > putting into base, over a port or package, since processing XML in base
> > is a pain, and it can't serve up JSON or HTML without additional
> > utilities anyway.
> >
> > (If I'm reviving a long-settled thing, let me know and I'll drop it. I'm
> > trying to understand the use case for this.)
> >
> > --- Harrison
> >
> > On 03/01/15 10:31, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Harrison Grundy <
> >> harrison.grundy_at_astrodoggroup.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If someone could summarize what this is, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-July/015633.html
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> I think you're missing the important bit here.
>
> This isn't about adding a parser for anything, this is about making the
> tools in base, like netstat, wc, uptime, etc, output in JSON or XML, so
> you can use the data programmatically.
>
> Your scripts no longer have to rely on awk/sed/grep magic to get a
> specific bit of information out of the uptime command, the command can
> just output the data in a structured machine readable format.
>
> I am not sure how you can put netstat into the ports tree.
>
>
> --
> Allan Jude
>
>
Hi,

Do we have command-line tools in base which work with XML/JSON from stdin
or file?

-- Eir Nym