On 06/08/2010 03:49 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 08.06.2010, 20:52 +0200 schrieb Andre Poenitz:
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 04:29:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
On 06/08/2010 03:27 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
What is the current status or thinking of the XML format for lyx 2?
Ideally, LyX 2 would have an XML file format. However, no-one is
actively working on the issue, so we postponed it.
As far as I know, we didn't really decide when and how to do the transition.
I worked recently with JSon format (www.json.org), cleaner to the
human, faster to parse and less verbose than XML, quite nice...
This might indeed be a good option.
http://gitorious.org/JsonQt/
http://gitorious.org/qjson
But the question remains what is the aim of the new format: is it for
us, or is it for other who wanna generate, manipulate, ... LyX files.
My understanding was that the point was to make the LyX format more
easily parsable by LyX and, in particular, to provide validation that a
file really is in the proper format. So, for us, but without breaking
the easy manipulability of LyX files via sed, awk, etc.
Richard
Peter
