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DJ Delorie wrote:

>> > xml is the most painful of the plain-text options.
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> And yet, everyone begged for it back when... :-P
> 
IMHO, xml it is a bit like C. The syntax supports painfully obfuscated but 
still syntactically legal and content. But nothing stops the programmer to 
write nicely formated, readable code. 

In the same vain, nothing stops geda tools from writing very legible XML 
files. A XML based format syntax could/should impose style standards in 
addition to the bare bones given by the tags. Again, this is very much 
like style conventions for coding.

However, a parser would not need to know about the style. I would only 
have to look for the bare bone tags. 

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Kai-Martin Knaak