On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:54:14 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is > redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more > simpler > then typing <layout name="Standard">.
You are welcome to reimplement lyx in shell, good luck. :-) > now imagine those regexps where you need to escape all those \" > > in conclusion xml will be pain for people trying to use .lyx files > directly with scripts etc. Clearly you did not had to deal with the lyx file format like I did. :-) If your idea of a parser is a set of regexp's that is so 80's. ;-) This seems to me like the debate between strong and bold. I want to parse the lyx file on a content based stream, not just a set of lines. After the change to xml the regularity will still be there with the added bonus that finally it will be consistent. We took 6 years to clean the lyx format to a reasonable state and we are still not there yet. It is funny to see all this nostalgia around something that is/was a nightmare. If the syntax was so clear you would not have the problem of crashing lyx with a bad formed file (a file modified by scripts). > pavel -- José Abílio
