Uli Kusterer:
> we had our reasons for ruling it out back them: mark-up languages always
>take up more disk space than binary files, which also results in a speed
>impact.

Julian:
I agree with that and a block file format is the best way to go for a thing
like OpenKard as you would never see the markup anyway.

Uli Kusterer:
> But everything has its uses. I'm sure we can later provide export to and
>import from XCML files, since it's good as a transfer format, but
>ineffective as a work-and-edit format if it's not a human but a machine
>manipulating the files.

Julian:
Thats a good idea, hopefully by the time openKard is complete XCML will be
finnished and tested and have a browser/interpreter.
I could always just write a converter like i have for Hypercard to start
with anyway.

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Julian Blackhirst
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XCML computer language and Hypercard to XCML converter
http://welcome.to/jewles/

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