In article <mo6g501d7c7cm15eim39k64mhug29jjf3v@4ax.com>,
 Peter Popov <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote:

> This comes up quite often and the problems with it are well known. But
> what do you think of XML? The scene structure is internally very well
> defined and there are no ambiguities, so XML with a proper doctype (or
> whatever is applicable for XML that defines the various tags and their
> parameters etc.) might actually have its use, even maybe for limited
> exporting from POV to other formats.

Bloated, the resulting files would be huge, and it adds another layer of 
parsing. A binary format would be much faster to load, and far more 
compact. I don't like XML...I do like the concept behind it, but I think 
the execution sucks.

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