[m-rev.] for review: use new stream library in term_to_xml

[Ian MacLarty]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:40:00PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Ian MacLarty wrote:
> 
> >Estimated hours taken: 5
> >Branches: main
> >
> >Use the new stream typeclass in the term_to_xml standard library module.
> >In the process remove some clutter from the interface by obsoleting
> >the predicates that do not take a stream argument and remove the
> >"_to_stream" suffix from those predicates that do take a stream
> >argument.
> >
> >library/term_to_xml.m:
> >	Use the stream.writer/3 typeclass where appropriate.
> >
> >	Make all XML writer predicates require a stream argument
> >	and remove the "_to_stream" suffix from these predicates.
> >
> >	Move all deprecated predicates to the end of the interface and
> >	pragma obsolete them.
> >
> >	Reword some comments.
> >
> >	Remove the behaviour of replacing "]]>" with "]]>" in CDATA
> >	elements, since that behaviour is a bit misleading, because ">"
> >	has no special meaning in CDATA.  Instead just document that "]]>"
> >	is not allowed in CDATA elements.
> >
> >browser/browse.m:
> >tests/hard_coded/write_xml.m:
> >tests/hard_coded/xmlable_test.m:
> >	Conform to the above changes.
> 
> The NEWS file will also need updating at some point, otherwise that's
> fine.
> 

Aren't we going put a general streams announcement in the NEWS file once
all the streams stuff has been committed?

Ian.
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