On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote:

> On 19 November 2013 16:42, Howard Butler <how...@hobu.co> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> Dan Little and myself would like to put forward an RFC proposing -xml and 
>> -json output support for both ogrinfo and gdalinfo. No changes are proposed 
>> to the current text format (which would continue to be the default output 
>> format), but having JSON and XML available would greatly ease the 
>> integration of gdalinfo and ogrinfo into existing processing workflows 
>> without requiring that someone jump into scripting land. Though it might 
>> have been overkill to have an RFC, I thought it would be useful to have 
>> something to collaborate on if others have ideas about these particular 
>> features.
>> 
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc44_gdalinfoxml
>> 
>> We look forward to your feedback,
> 
> "You don't parse the output of gdalinfo --format, do you?" :P
> 
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-January/035117.html

I don't, but I fully expect that are there are folks who have, simply due to 
not having a better, more convenient way to do things. JSON and XML output puts 
people on the right path at least...

Howard

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