Exu Yangi wrote:
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Ah, yes. What do we output? Once again, the number of output technologies available in common would seem to indicate either XML or INI format. They are text based, and portable assuming we ignore the wierd end-of-line marker problems on Macs.Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't understand this bit of the conversation. I would expect that a parser would not have ANY form of structured output for an entire tune, or an entire book of tunes. I don't understand why anyone would want to write a parser to parse a file and then spit out a new file (or buffer) of stuff that then itself has to be re parsed to be used???
I would vote for XML.
Simply because abc is such a mish-mash (read: "humanly readable") notation that the production of a structured output from it is the hard part. It's easy to write an XML parser (or other) in comparison.
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