[qmtest] algorithms with less storage for producing results.xml?

[Mark Mitchell]

Allyn Dimock wrote:

> It looks as if this format could be generated in two passes over
> the results.qmt file(s) without requiring much more memory than
> the size of an annotation. 

Yes, I believe that's correct.

> I don't know Python xml generation packages.  How easy / difficult would
> this be to do?

It would not be that hard.  IIRC, it may not be possible to generate
"half" of a complete XML entry, so you might have to manually emit the
top-level "<foo>" and "</foo>" markers.  But, the Python libraries would
certainly be happy to generate a result-at-a-time, say.

I think it would be great if you tackled this issue, and I'm sure Stefan
and I would be able to give some pointers.

Thanks,

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