Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 17:50 -0500 schrieb rgheck: > On 01/29/2010 05:18 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote: > > Again, maybe I'm too late, but: > > Is a switch to XML is really a good idea? > > > > The XML hype is over, we don't use Java, LyX > > doesn't run on a Application-Server, and we > > live now in a App/web-app world where Json > > is more common than XML. > > > > And living in the Latex world this means we should > > not use XML but the equivalent for Json in Tex: > > > > Lua. http://www.lua.org/ > > > > In future there is a Latex with an embedded script > > language > > > > http://www.luatex.org/ > > > > which we could use NOW for our needs. > > > > > What would help me here is to see a simple example of what the file > format would look like.
Sorry for not posing an example. Here a link to a bibtex-like entry: http://www.lua.org/pil/10.1.html > > But I think part of the point of XML is its self-validating and highly > structured character. Yes, there is a huge infrastructure for XML. But the discussion is similar to "json xml", just google for these to words. Lua and JavaScript are very similar. > > Richard
