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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:37:15 +0100
From: "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] XML file format (what could be expected)
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> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
> > wrote:
> > > I do not think file format is important.
> >
> > You are absolutely right about this, the data model is the challenge,
> > not how to store it, that's trivial.
> >
> 
> But if you're going to go with a plain text format, you'd want a good
> reason to choose XML, as its the least readable option.

It would be very readable if good graphical viewers where avaialable for Linux but I searched for linux viewers and did not find in debian. If no good parsers are available I guess there is no good reason at all.