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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:47:38PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
>> Hmmm, isn't the formatting of xml a little heavy-weight for a stub?
> 
> Nope.  *Parsing* XML is a bit heavy-weight, but generating it requires
> only a tiny routine to escape characters if you support arbitrary
> names in the generated XML; you can generate it textually, not
> via a DOM.  gdbserver does this, for instance, and I'd guess it's just
> a couple hundred bytes of code.  No more than it would take for a
> qfThreadInfo analogue.

OK.  Could I maybe get a preview of what you have in mind?
I'm working on something similar, might as well try to be
compatible.