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Re: Logging Question

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From Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject Re: Logging Question
Date Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:24:53 -0500
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On 01/01/2012 06:06 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 12-01-01 08:59 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 01/01/2012 06:33 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>> Novice<novice@example..com>   writes:
>>>> Yes! I simply copied XMLFormatter from the Java source file, added one
>>>
>>>     A log file should remain usable even when the process was terminated
>>>     abnormally. But an XML file needs to have one single root element
>>>     that has an end tag at its end. A process that is being terminated
>>>     abnormally might not write such an end tag. So, one has no guarantee
>>>     that the log output is well-formed XML. Or did I miss something?
>>>
>> Only that there are no guarantees.
>> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/logging/overview.html#a1.12>
>>
> And let's face it, the<log>  document element in this case is useless.
> It conveys zero information. It would better to regard each record as a
> separate well-formed XML document, and the file is merely physical
> storage for a bunch of log records.
>
> This kind of XML "wrapper" element, as in<log>  in this case, happens
> when folks think that 1 XML document == 1 physical file. An XML document
> entity is a logical, not a physical storage, concept.
>
Rodger. That brings up the interesting possibility of an Berkeley DB 
(XML) Logger.

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Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-12-31 21:27 +0000
  Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-31 17:25 -0500
    Re: Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-01 01:46 +0000
  Re: Logging Question Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-31 14:53 -0800
    Re: Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-01 01:59 +0000
      Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-31 22:14 -0500
        Re: Logging Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-01 05:44 +0000
          Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-01 07:59 -0500
            Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-01 08:14 -0500
            Re: Logging Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-01 19:06 -0400
              Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-01 18:24 -0500
              Re: Logging Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-03 15:33 +0000
                Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-03 11:21 -0500
                Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-03 11:35 -0500
                Re: Logging Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-04 14:42 +0000
                Re: Logging Question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-04 11:43 -0500
                Re: Logging Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-04 20:28 -0400
                Re: Logging Question Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2012-01-05 11:28 +0200
                Re: Logging Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-01-08 14:08 +0000
                Re: Logging Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-09 19:47 -0400

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