patch applied (packages/HaXml): Use ByteString for output (contributed by Jason Dagit, with modifications)

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:21 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:14AM -0800, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > Mon Nov 13 10:39:35 PST 2006  Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
> >   * Use ByteString for output (contributed by Jason Dagit, with modifications)
> >   There are some new signatures in Text.XML.HaXml.XmlContent:
> >       fpsShowXml
> >       fpsWriteXml
> >       fpsHPutXml
> 
> I think bs* would make more sense than fps*, as PackedString I think
> will refer to the upcoming unicode-supporting bytestring-a-like (and
> even if you plan to switch them to that when it appears, I hope it won't
> have the "Fast" prefix as I think we should try to avoid carrying that
> around forever).

Yes, FPS was only a temporary name. As Ian says, in the end it'll be:

Data.ByteString    -- for Word8/Char8
Data.PackedString  -- for Char

So "ps" prefix is probably ok.

BTW, can HaXml parse from ByteString(.Lazy) ?

Duncan