Re: Data table text I/O package?

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> I may be dense, but isn't this the purpose of XML? If so, why
> reinvent the wheel?

The purpose of XML is to be _the_ universal file format.

a) I don't want a universal file format.

b) I don't believe in a universal file format.

c) XML is (almost) less readable than a binary file my purposes.

d) I'm _not_ going to switch away from tabulator separated tables for
purposes, where tabulator separated tables are a sensible
representation of the data in textual form.

> (I personally think XML is way overused, more because it *can* be
> used than that it is worthwhile for the application. But this seems
> to be exactly the application that it was designed for. You'll end
> up with something like XML eventually anyway, why not start with
> it?)

I'm afraid you completely misunderstood my problem. It is not a
matter of a selecting a file format. It is the matter of
automagically generating code for reading and writing that file
format.

Jacob
--
"I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters
on which I hope enlightenment. One is quantum electro-dynamics and the
other is turbulence of fluids. About the former, I am rather optimistic."
Sir Horace Lamb.

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