Marc Chantreux <marc.chantr...@biblibre.com> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 12:18:50PM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote: > > 1. CSV, directly importable into spreadsheet and database programmes > > 2. XML, easily handled by MySQL, more transparent than CSV > > I would choose YAML because > - it can store tree (as xml) without the need of extra tags (required in > xml) > - it's human readable/editable
Which is better on the above two points are debatable: YAML doesn't need closing tags (which are often better for clarity, like comments next to /TMPL_IF tags), but I think it has meaningful whitespace which I don't like because humans are poor at seeing whitespace. > - it supports pointed structures Do we need them? > - it's now supported everywhere Not everywhere, but probably comparable with XML. Does MySQL handle it now? I'm inclined towards XML because I know its tools better and my experience is that XML tools are more widely available, although I guess Koha requires both YAML and XML tools to be available. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel