POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV Wishlist : Re: POV Wishlist Server Time
4 Aug 2024 00:23:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV Wishlist  
From: Andreas Kaiser
Date: 21 Mar 2004 15:32:03
Message: <naur509406budks81g7i9g12oe5cql5bhv@4ax.com>
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:04:42 -0500, Christopher James Huff wrote:

>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.

Then you will like <http://tinyurl.com/ypna3>

-- 
Andreas


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