On Tuesday 25 October 2005 11:08 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > I've always been a fan of line-oriented files. Easy to parse -- you > don't even need lex and yacc or such tools. This probably wouldn't > work well with VLSI data, but a suprising amount of data can be > handled this way.
Yeh. Then add the markup in layers as was suggested in the link you posted earlier ... Good old Ted Nelson, a very radical guy, http://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.nelson.html I have not tried to work this out but it might be very clean. Of course, it likely would not be, LOL. I do think it is worth exploring. I am not sure why it would not work with VLSI data but I am sure Andrew can tell us. I don't know a thing about such data. If I were inventing it in my ignorance I would just guess (the geometry at least) to be nothing more than a tree of rectangles inside of rectangles ... a fractal forest I suppose. Do it with big integers, never go near floating point. [0] => [01] [02] [03] [04] [01] => [010] [012] ... [02] => ... [03] => ... [04] => ... [010] => ... [1] => etc. Layers of attributes on these things. Attach attributes to each [n] But everybody that ever creates anything must represent it differently ... ego, proprietary lock in, performance. Lots of reasons, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
