GDB/XMI (XML Machine Interface)

[Felix Lee]

Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>:
> I am not interested in writing this library. I am interested in the XML
> approach. Do you know why yet? It's because I won't have to write a
> library. No one will. Ever.

parsing mi is trivial.  writing a wrapper to do bidirectional
translation to xml is trivial.  designing the schema is the hard
part.  all this can be done without changes to gdb itself.  if
it's workable and maintainable, then it will be easier to
convince people to absorb it into the gdb source and remove the
indirection so that gdb speaks xml 'natively'.
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