On Friday 07 January 2005 11:38 am, Daniel J Wisehart wrote: > Why not use a neutral standard like XML?
Because XML really doesn't say much. All it really does is to specify a syntax based on tags like <foo> to begin a scope named foo, and </foo> to end it. Everything meaningful is specified in DTD files. You could make an equal statement by asking it to be C-like. All this says is to use curly-braces, and a C-like syntax. It is equally valid, but also equally useless because it doesn't say what is needed to communicate. What is important is all of the information that relates to circuits. This is where a full language like VHDL comes in. A VHDL-like language using XML syntax would be equally valid except that it isn't a standard. I don't particularly like the ADA-like syntax choices that VHDL made, but that is a minor point that I can live with.
