On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:20:03 -0500
Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:


> Liviu,
> 
> You *do* mean *well formed* XML-based native format, right?
> 
> Yeah, we might as well: We've already done about all the human
> readability damage we can do to the format. If it were well formed, at
> least it would be simple to make a pretty-print for it.

My apologies, everyone, the preceding is a false statement on my part.

I just created a brand new LyX file in 2.0.6, which is the packaged LyX
for Ubuntu 13.10, and there wasn't a bit of XML in it, well formed or
otherwise. It was basically the same format human parseable format it's
been for 10 years, but with a lot more insets and options. But as far
as I can tell, the newlines in the format are meaningful, meaning one
can do a line by line parse, although with today's proliferation of
great features, many implemented as insets, the parse isn't as simple
as it was in 2005.

SteveT

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