[Openicc] Fwd: Settings bundles (Robert Krawitz, Edmund Ronald)

[peters at skarpetis.com]

On 19/02/2011, at 10:47 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:

> Chris Murphy wrote:
>> times. It such a complete mess to sift through. I guess fully 90% of the content of the
>> file is repetitive, extraneously, useless garbage, visually speaking.
> 
> Not just visually. The computer has to parse all that lot too. And every
> duplication demands checking and dealing with the possibility of
> things not matching.
> 

A well designed XML file structure would mitigate a lot of these problems. The rats nest of XML tags you speak of mostly comes from ill thought xml structure or formats that have been infi itely patched and extended. 

The most suited file format is one that would be easy to parse, using existing toolkits, by all subsystems. The human readability part is not that important, however a good design that is fast to parse, is. 

Peter Skarpetis

> Graeme Gill.
> 
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