In article <40609966@news.povray.org>,
 "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:

> But in this instance, effiency isn't whats important.

Yes, it is. The relatively compact (relative to an XML representation) 
scene structures in memory can take up a great deal of space. You can 
easily get binary files of several hundred MB, or XML files of over a GB.


> Common middle ground
> for converting from and to is, and if said middle ground is an open format,
> so much the better.

But XML isn't a format, it's a markup language. Even if you put your 
data in XML, other programs will need to know how to handle that data in 
order to make use of it. You just have a bulkier, less efficient method 
of transferring data.

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