Christoph Hormann wrote:
> In short: nothing prevents you from doing so (at least theoretically) 
> but you should bear in mind the following thing: no one sane who uses 
> POV-Ray for serious work will write a scene in XML or use XML to store 
> scene data.  If you have trouble imagining why this is the case just 
> have a look at Yafray.

I just had a look at it. Yafray seems to support only meshes. This is 
certainly not a good approach. This will lead to big XML files. XML as 
low level language can't be a good idea since processing speed does 
matter. But what about a high level XML representation? There wouldn't 
be that bad processing speed impacts.

On the other hand: The POVRay file format is not that open to 
extensions. There isn't a reasonable naming scheme which would allow to 
use codesnippets from all kinds of people in one single project. So for 
real big and long-term projects XML would definately be the markup 
language of choice.

Bernd Fuhrmann

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