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/ Basically you are allowed strings, numbers, arrays, and "object", which would be called a map, an associative array, a dictionary, or something else along those lines anywhere else. That isn't to say that JSON is right every where, but I think it is more frequently the correct choice than XML is. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user