Nigel Stewart wrote in message <38C### [at] nigelscom>...
>        Anyway - here is a more concrete model of how I think
>        povray data input should be handled.  There needs to
>        be a clean and simple interface between the POV parser
>        implementation and the core POVray raytracing engine.
>        This API might look like a bunch of simple functions
>        such as "bool insertSphere(...)" which is as minimal
>        as possible, while supporting all of the POV data types.
>        Things like loops, variables and macros should be
>        strictly layered above this API.

I'm not particularly interested in an XML POV-script.  However, completely
separating the parser from the renderer to allow other languages to be used
for writing POV scenes without going through the intermediary of POV-Script
sounds like an excellent idea.

Mark

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