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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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> A. Falvo II
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:44 PM
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> 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.
>
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> Samuel A. Falvo II
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