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chris_wot
on Aug 11, 2012
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Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson
What about providing a filter that converts to whatever format you can think of? e.g. outputs in JSON or XML
Groxx
on Aug 11, 2012
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Because what are you converting
from
? It can't be turtles all the way down, at some point there must be a defined system that everything speaks. Adding output formats after that is relatively simple.
chris_wot
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The output is typed, in a standard format. He defines in his post (cf output of the dfs program).
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