On 26 March 2011 04:46, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, does EBML allow generation of type definitions for
> ordinary programing languages?

I'm not sure what this means, but no one else has replied, so:

EBML is just a binary format for a tree of tagged values. Natively it
supports values of type integer (signed or unsigned), floating point,
string, date, or binary blob. So those basic types are easy to
represent, as are arrays and dictionaries, but one needs an additional
parse layer for string- or blob-encoded data to handle anything more
complicated.

I suppose it has the advantage of actually having a schema language
over a custom format of similar complexity.

 -r
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