On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:26:28AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. > > I think that using a Lisp (or Lispy-looking) format would be extensible, > > easy to parse, and make the most people happy. > > Allow me to toss out JSON. It is about as light weight as using S-EXP, > but politically it isn't tied down by references to Lisp. Plus, since > it has become fairly popular, there are good readers/writers for most > languages. > > The format is defined at: http://www.json.org/ >
Recently I had to implement multiple output formats for a project of mine, including xml, JSON and plist (property list). After that session, for simple trees, I'd prefer plist over JSON. Myabe it's just me but i found it more readable for the human eye (independent of the indentation). Regards, Tibor Palinkas _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user