Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Al Davis <ad62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 January 2005 11:38 am, Daniel J Wisehart wrote:
> Why not use a neutral standard like XML?  

Because XML really doesn't say much.  All it really does is to 
specify a syntax based on tags like <foo> to begin a scope 
named foo, and </foo> to end it.  Everything meaningful is 
specified in DTD files.

You could make an equal statement by asking it to be C-like.  
All this says is to use curly-braces, and a C-like syntax.  It 
is equally valid, but also equally useless because it doesn't 
say what is needed to communicate.

What is important is all of the information that relates to 
circuits.  This is where a full language like VHDL comes in.  A 
VHDL-like language using XML syntax would be equally valid 
except that it isn't a standard.  I don't particularly like the 
ADA-like syntax choices that VHDL made, but that is a minor 
point that I can live with.