String concatenation considered harmfull (or how is HTML different than XML with regards to creating it)
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From
Brad, I got to
Craig's post about the
bad things that happen when you build XML by string concatenation. His core statement is:
The moral of the story here is that if you find yourself doing something like this:
xml = "<FOO>" + fooContents + "</FOO>";
then you should lose points on your programming license.
Now, I wonder how is XML different than HTML with regards to creating it. After all, you should probably be creating *X*HTML anyway, as it's the most compatible way of doing it. So, you should *
also* lose points if you're doing the following:
output.WriteLine("<FIELDSET><LEGEND>Federation namespace list</LEGEND></FIELDSET>");Guess
where you will find **TONS** of code like that. This is so
1996 of them!!