On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:07:22PM +0200, gfxuser wrote: > Am 05.07.12 16:57, schrieb Michael Natterer: > >On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:55 +0300, Ville Sokk wrote: > >>GEGL needs a new serialization format. On IRC two popular choices > >>were JSON and YAML. Fancy features are not required so both should be > >>good choices. > >> > >>YAML pros: > >>* very readable > >> > >>JSON pros: > >>* pretty much every programming language has a JSON library > >>* simpler than YAML > >> > >>Bat´O's YAML example: http://pastebin.com/QML9BkCb > >>and JSON: http://pastebin.com/9ZV9y7Vz > >> > >>Any ideas why one should be chosen over the other? Maybe there's an > >>even better option? > >And XML was ruled out because it's not the latest fad any longer? > > > > > Hi, > > I was also wondering why not XML. IIRC image processing in GEGL is > internally represented by a tree (correct me if I'm wrong). Are YAML > and JSON able to handle this, better than a native tree format like > XML?
XML was originally a text format. It's rather complicated to parse, mainly because of legacy compatibility issues. It's bulky. It's usable for word processing (as in OpenOffice) only because it's been compressed. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ gegl-developer-list mailing list gegl-developer-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer-list
