in news:41d51598@news.povray.org Bernd Fuhrmann wrote:

> What do you think about this idea?
> 

After reading most of the thread, I get the impression that you have a 
"problem" and that your "solution" to that "problem" is XML. I think I 
have a simmilar "problem", 'all one can do with a .pov file is render it 
with POV-Ray'.

I.m.o XML itself is not the solution. You gave one reason: "Obviously 
this works only in one direction". Others gave many other reasons.

What we'd need is a POV-Ray parser, and currently the only one available 
is POV-Ray and we can't use that for other purposes. I tried writing one 
in Python, but gave up due to severe lack of skills.

Once you have a POV-parser (with a liberal enough licence and with some 
API or bindings or ...) you can do many things with a scene, even 
convert it to some form of XML if you like.


Ingo

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