[cad-linux-dev] Re: CAD data - YAML text file format
- From: Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 15:14:03 -0500
> The following was supposedly scribed by
> Bruno Postle
> on Sunday 05 October 2003 02:43 pm:
>YAML is a data serialisation language, not a markup language like
>XML, so it is probably better in principle for CAD data and surely
>expressive enough.
I like this idea. How would it support variables? I don't see anything in
the YAML docs about references (e.g., $ref = \$var)
0: [ 170, $y, 0 ]
1: [ $x{right}, $y, 0 ]
While serialization as a file format is not a good idea (if it ties the format
to the data structure, it is bad,) I could see enough room for expansion
without creating an overly complicated markup heirarchy (I can't really see
accomplishing anything with a one-liner on an XML file.)
--Eric
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