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Subject: Re: [geda-user] file format cooperation
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On 13-07-2021 21:40, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 04:32:56PM +0000, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) 
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
>>> I'm leaning towards using SXML instead.
>>
>> It seems possible here that both packages could agree on a common XML
>> format, which I think would be great.
> I've meant SXML, not XML. KiCad, for example, uses the former for
> which they invented their home-brew parser in C++. Guile reads
> SXML natively and there are procedures for conversion from and to
> XML in the module (sxml simple).
>
Hi all list members,

This looks like the XML discussion that recurs on the list every now and 
then.

File format cooperation would be a good thing, either the native format 
for geda-gschem, or a new hybrid on which both parties can agree.

pcb has spawned a clone (2014-ish) with an entirely different native 
file format, I won't call that a "vendor lock" in though, it's 
effectively preventing users to swap applications "on the fly", and we 
can learn from this.

There has been some effort in the past for a set of XML/DTD definitions 
... like here: https://github.com/obliviand/geda-xml ... maybe we can 
start from there and improve.

I recently wrote an XML exporter for pcb, it's 95% ready, just need just 
a couple of tags to be implemented and may be included in the next 
release as an "alpha" feature.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.