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</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>libxo: generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marcel</given>
<common>Moolenaar</common>
</name>
<email>marcel@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html">libxo: The Easy Way to Generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Many &os; utilities provide insight into the operational
state of a running &os; system and as such are used regularly to
monitor the system. These utilities provide their output in a human
readable form and sometimes even optimized for the limited width of
traditional terminals. Often times these utilities are used by other
programs that want to present the output in different ways or as part
of other user interfaces. For such use cases, it is infinitely better
to work with machine-readable output instead of human-readable
output.</p>
<p>Juniper Networks has created a library called libxo, that
makes it easy for utilities to emit output in various
formats. By default the text output is emitted, but with the
introduction of the <tt>—libxo</tt> option this can be changed to
XML, JSON and HTML. The &os; project has imported this library
into the base system and is in the process of rewriting utilities
to use libxo.</p>
<p>Related to this, &os; now also has the <tt>xo</tt> utility that
allows scripts to grow the same capabilities. Instead of
using <tt>echo</tt> or <tt>printf</tt> in scripts, output can be
done using the <tt>xo</tt> utility.</p>
<p>The <tt>df</tt>, <tt>w</tt>, and <tt>wc</tt> utilities
have been converted to use libxo. The <tt>netstat</tt>
utility is in the process of being converted and others are
planned.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>&os; contains a lot of utilities that could benefit from
having the ability to emit various output formats,
too many for a few people to convert in time for &os; 11.0-RELEASE.
If you or your company would like to see a particular
utility converted, consider learning about libxo and
trying to perform the conversion of said utility to help
out.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>