Erik Hofman wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: >> How will a VEC3 property be written in an XML file? As >> <foo type="vec3">123;341;123</foo>? Will then every application >> which reads such a file have to have its own (sub)parser for >> certain fields, in addition to using an XML parser? > > This is my strongest point to be against it. The property tree is there > for easy xml file loading and saving. I can see no obvious way to save > those VEC properties to an xml file in a way that is supported by the > xml specification. What do you mean by that? Other XML file formats with strict DTDs support similar notes of aggregate properties. If your application is smart enough to write out <red>...</red><green>...</green>...." then it can surely handle writing out a vector type. > > It is impossible at this time to say whether or not that is desirable at > all in the future so this option should be left open. > > Aside from that is see no reason to add them in the first place. I hope my RFC makes the motivation clear. Tim
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