> 16:58:28 ray@jabber.isc.org: it feels brittle, compared to using a
> library that ensures that your tags get closed, and that all values
> are correctly escaped
> 16:58:43 bconry: when you use a library you're letting (supposed)
> experts in the format make sure that your output will be legal
> 16:59:07 bconry: when you roll your own you're trusting yourself and
> all future maintainers to be expert enough in the format to not make
> any mistakes
> 16:59:10 ray@jabber.isc.org: last big project I worked on before ISC,
> I insisted that the new version of the code use an existing JSON
> library rather than hand-code it

I agree with these objections.

I think we can probably improve code readability by writing subsidiary
functions that handle the opening and closing of tags, but I don't want
to risk BIND producing improperly sanitized XML.

I *love* isc_buffer_printf() though! Let's definitely keep that idea.