This is part 13/14 of my Implementing IXmlWriter post series. As the private members of IXmlWriter are getting too numerous and too likely to change by my judgment, today I will put last time’s IXmlWriter behind a compilation firewall (pimpl). The idea behind the pimpl idiom is to hide as much of the class definition as possible in order to avoid requiring users of the class to recompile if the class’s private members are changed. Read more...