Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Christopher James Huff wrote:
> 
>>Bloated, the resulting files would be huge, 
> 
> 
> But thats not the point, The ability to get scenes onto other platforms is,
> and XML (no matter how bloated the files may be) is ideal.

No, if there was an existing file format widely supported for this 
purpose that uses xml that would be a valid argument, if not xml would 
probably be a guarantee that hardly any program will add an import 
function for such a format when introduced by POV.

If you don't believe this give me a counterexample: an xml file format 
introduced by a free program that got accepted by commercial 
applications as an universal data exchange format.

If you are referring to xml being 'easily' translatable into arbitrary 
other formats - just write a converter for the most common proprietary 
formats.  If such a converter existed it would surely be acceptable to 
deal with GB sized xml files as in-between format but i don't see a 
chance of this happening.

Christoph

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