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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Øyvind Kolås <pip...@gimp.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:07 PM, gfxuser <gfx.u...@online.de> wrote:
> > I was also wondering why not XML. IIRC image processing in GEGL is
> > internally represented by a tree (correct me if I'm wrong). Are YAML and
> > JSON able to handle this, better than a native tree format like XML?
>
> The reason that a new/extended format is needed is that GEGL is more
> general than a tree - it uses graphs. At the moment GEGL uses the
> implicit tree of the nodes from XML + the ability to clone outputs to
> represent the subset of graphs that are representable with sources,
> filters and composers (two input pads, one output pad). All of the
> programming API in GEGL deals with graphs not trees - the tree
> representation of constrained subsets can however still be useful to
> use both for _some_ deserialization purposes as well as UI
> representations.
>
> /Øyvind K.
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