On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:02 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:14:09PM +0200, Luis Garrido wrote: > > The RDF stuff is looking more and more arcane and hairy with each > > iteration, with all those colons, periods and quotes, plus some > > SQL'ish for good measure. Human readable? I begin to miss the > > syntactic simplicity of only using angled brackets in XML. Sigh, not > > another syntax to learn, please. > > XML doesn't offer the features we need. If we define an XML schema for > LADSPA2 descriptions, and someone extends it, you can bet your bottom > dollar that it will break 90% of the parsers in some exciting way.
But RDF can be written in XML, so it must have the features, mustn't it? I just find it very hard to believe that audio plugins are that special. Everyone else seems to manage fine with XML. Damon
