On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Øyvind Kolås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Ferran Basora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been watching the code about reading and generation of XML in > GEGL. I > > think it is obsolete and pour extensible. > > This code should not be extended much, if at all, it should perhaps be > cleaned up, but that also pends on reaching agreement/consensus on the > OpenRaster specification at freedesktop. Right now the current code > serves the purpose and it is not meant to be extended much even when > reshaped to be more inline with the OpenRaster plans. We may not have to extend the code but clean. As you say we have to wait for a final specification of OpenRaster format, but is propable that OpenRaster format will be a structure in XML, as OpenDocument. One of the things that is pending with regard to the XML format is > finding a way to make the meta operations be described as XML instead > of C, this should also be easily doable continuing to use gmarkup > (this might be unrelated to OpenRaster, or might be something that > could be folded into the set of things specified there.) > > I would like to see a significant advantage over the current parsing > approach for dragging in an external library. For the serialization > (generation of XML) I doubt that other approaches would yield any > siginificantly saner code. It might even be better to completely > remove all XML based functionality than to add a new dependency on an > external library. For this reason GEGL will need an interface to load OpenRaster format from an XML. I do not see feasible to remove completely all the XML functionality. > > /Øyvind K. > -- > «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» > -- William Gibson > http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ >
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