[computer-go] Re: XML alternatives to SGF

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Dyer
At 04:03 PM 10/22/2007, Markus Enzenberger wrote: >On Mon October 22 2007 10:15, Don Dailey wrote: >> almost impossible to write XML manually without bugs. > >it also seems to be hard to write an SGF file without bugs. >I recently run a test on a collection of about 5000 SGF files >from various sou

[computer-go] Re: XML alternatives to SGF

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Dyer
XML per se is not an improvement - it's just another way of wrapping data in a parseable package. XML says nothing about the structure, content, and semantics of the data. SGF does all that, it's very Go-friendly, and there are already many tools that use it for Go. ___

[computer-go] Re: XML alternatives to SGF

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Dyer
XML per se is not an improvement - it's just another way of wrapping data in a parseable package. XML says nothing about the structure, content, and semantics of the data. SGF does all that, it's very Go-friendly, and there are already many tools that use it for Go. ___