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

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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:26:28AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> > XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.
> > I think that using a Lisp (or Lispy-looking) format would be extensible,
> > easy to parse, and make the most people happy.
> 
> Allow me to toss out JSON.  It is about as light weight as using S-EXP,
> but politically it isn't tied down by references to Lisp.  Plus, since
> it has become fairly popular, there are good readers/writers for most
> languages. 
> 
> The format is defined at: http://www.json.org/  
> 

Recently I had to implement multiple output formats for a project of 
mine, including xml, JSON and plist (property list). After that session, 
for simple trees, I'd prefer plist over JSON. Myabe it's just me but i 
found it more readable for the human eye (independent of the 
indentation).

Regards,

Tibor Palinkas





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