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Re: Logging Question

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On 01/04/2012 09:42 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>
>> On 01/03/2012 10:33 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>>> On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On 01/01/2012 06:33 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What happens if you throw such a file into a normal XML parser?
>>>
>>> I would imagine that if you're using StAX, you can stop parsing when
>>> you hit the end of a root element, and then either carry on to the
>>> next one, or perhaps wrap a fresh parser round the underlying input
>>> stream.
>>>
>>> I have no idea what a SAX parser would do; i don't know how much
>>> well-formedness checking they do.
>>>
>>> What would a DOM parser do?
>>>
>>> You might need to interpolate a layer between the parser and the
>>> FileInputStream to notionally split the file into substreams, one per
>>> document. That would require some sort of framing format for the
>>> file, i think.
>>
>> The java.util.logging.XMLFormatter follows the DTD described in the
>> Appendix.* You are free to write a formatter that follows your own DTD.
>
> No, i was talking about Arved's idea of putting multiple XML documents
> in a single file. Did you read and understand Arved's post?
>
Yep. Shrugs.

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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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