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[Ivan Stankovic <pokemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:19:00PM +0000, Peter C.J. Clifton wrote:
> When I met DJ, Stuart, Ales and Steve in Boston recently, we
> discussed file formats (for gEDA's future), and we all agreed it
> would never be a good idea to home-brew a syntax parser again.
> 
> The two mooted as credible possibilities, and having good library
> support existing were XML and JSON.

JSON is actually very nice and human readable, compared to XML.
And there are many libraries for reading/writing JSON (there's
even json-glib).

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