On Monday 01 December 2008 00:49:31 al davis wrote: > We need a translator system that will go between any source and > any target in two steps. Source to the interchange format, > then interchange format to target. > > The system needs to be able to make a lossless round trip. That > is, any source to interchange format and back to the same > source must be lossless.
If any source can be round-tripped to the interchange format and back, the
interchange format must necessarily be a superset of all of the requirements
of any of the sources' formats.
This being the case, why not just adopt the interchange format as the native
format for each of the tools? Having to implement perfect translators is
*harder* than switching to a new file format, IMHO.
Peter
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Peter Brett
Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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