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RE: XML file formats .... was: Re: gEDA-user: Some footprints I triedto create



Can you point me to a link on how this works?  I use an RPN calculator, but
never heard that term applied to data storage/configuration/however you
describe what you are doing here.

Dave
 

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> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Samuel 
> A. Falvo II
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:44 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: XML file formats .... was: Re: gEDA-user: Some 
> footprints I triedto create
> 
> On 3/14/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >    This is a very real point, and one that I can speak to from 
> > experience.  A few years ago, I converted a big-ish commercial
> 
> A bit of experience on my end when I was working for Hifn -- 
> we were in need of an extensible configuration file format, 
> and XML was an option.  However, I ended up implementing a 
> flat, lexer-only solution, which of course is possible only 
> with reverse polish notation.  So, if you need a *small*, 
> truely extensible (trivial, even), and easy to write parser, 
> that doesn't require even more complexities like bison/yacc 
> (not all platforms have them), then you might want to 
> consider the RPN option as well.  This is one of the reasons 
> why Postscript is RPN (Postscript printers, while they often 
> had megabytes and megabytes of RAM, rarely used a significant 
> fraction of it for anything except bitmap and font data.  
> Hence, Postscript was ideal because it minimized resource 
> consumption).
> 
> Just throwing out ideas.
> 
> --
> Samuel A. Falvo II
> 
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