Call for standards: EPROM/cal editing

[Dig]

>>>>>>>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 08:35:08 +1100
From: Peter Gargano <peter at techedge.com.au>
Subject: Re: Call for standards: EPROM/cal editing
software

Paul Blackmore wrote:
>>>  ... It would be extensible, portable, human
>>>readable and above all ...

I think the "problem" with XML is that, while it may
be human readable (just),
it's not human editable without some tool. And I think
it's totally over the
top in terms of being verbose. This verbosity almost
guarantees that no-one
will make any sense out of it without an editor.
Okay, in itself, this may not be a serious criticism,
but I'd like a standard
that is simple for a human to read and edit. And I
think that it's possible
without "resorting" to XML.

>>>>>>>>

I tend to agree with Peter here... while XML might be
human-readable, it's pretty loud to sit and look at,
or to make sense of it.

However, it's excellent as far as extensibility
goes...
we'd be able to change as the needs for new table tags
changed, and we wouldn't have to worry about making
the old definitions obsolete.

I think we can design a INI-style format that offers
enough extensibility, while still being "readable"
and useable by mere mortals, without the use of any
particular editor.

Later,

Dig
turbodig at yahoo.com


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Thousands of Stores.  Millions of Products.  All in one Place.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from gmecm, send "unsubscribe gmecm" (without the quotes)
in the body of a message (not the subject) to majordomo at lists.diy-efi.org