On 10/22/07, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I personally hate XML. It's crazy to reject SGF because of it's > readability only to use XML which is verbose and only somewhat readable > if you carefully construct it to be. What is crazy to me is that it > was desgined to be HUMAN readable, and yet the argument to use it is > that there are lots of libraries to create it and parse it. It's > almost impossible to write XML manually without bugs. As far as I'm > concerned you might as well use a much more efficient binary format if > it's designed to be used with libraries for reading and writing. > > Just my opinion, don't want to start any wars here ... :-)
Wow, you had a much stronger reaction than I had expected. My only problem with sgf has always been how points are specified. I'd just like to see adoption of a standard file format for go that is human readable. To me, that requires "standard" algebraic notation such as "E4". I'd definitely prefer to see an sgf-like or PGN-like variant over XML. I can't yet commoent on JSON or YAML. PS: Care to create an example of a JSON/YAML file excerpt that includes a variation?
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