Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:29:58PM -0400, Rick Collins wrote:
> XML?  What's wrong with XML?  Heavy?  How heavy are a few electrons anyway?
>

For most data, XML ends up being > 50% tags (and < 50% data). It's hard to
read for humans, bandwidth-intensive for machines, difficult to parse and
generally ugly.

Plus, the entire spec is enormous, and using only a subset of the spec
means that we've lost a lot of the compatibility arguments in favor of
it.


Andrew
 


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