On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:47:33 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > > It probably should be in the spec, or at least a recommended schema. There > > better be a good reason for it being anything other than XML. > > The *spec* certainly. But requirements? The requirement seems to be "GMPI > should have a standard preset file format. That format must be flexible, > extensible, well-defined, hierarchical, and human-editable pure ASCII."
Well, like you said the reuqiments dont need to specify the format, it needs to be complete (in the compsci sense) - the other factors dont matter as much - the the plugin state isnt hierachical then the state format doesnt need to be either - even a binary format isnt the end of the world. - Steve