On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:29:58PM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: > XML? What's wrong with XML? Heavy? How heavy are a few electrons anyway? >
For most data, XML ends up being > 50% tags (and < 50% data). It's hard to read for humans, bandwidth-intensive for machines, difficult to parse and generally ugly. Plus, the entire spec is enormous, and using only a subset of the spec means that we've lost a lot of the compatibility arguments in favor of it. Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user