[sdiy] Modular Patch Notation (MPN)

[Andre Majorel]

On 2003-10-03 15:11 +0200, René Schmitz wrote:

> Why not use something which is a standard already? And something which 
> is extensible per se. Read: XML.

XML is nice in a way but it's optimised for parsing by machines.
For humans, it's a PITA to read or write.

Would you prefer to read and write this :

  group "groupid"
  {
    item "item1";
    item "item2";
  };

or this ?

  <group id="groupid">
    <item id="item1" />
    <item id="item2" />
  </group>

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