Mike Meyer wrote: > On the subject of making LyX use XML as a native format - please don't > do that just because XML is the flavor of the month. Only do that if > it buys something real. XML is mostly good as a standard for document > interchange (it's used for lots of other things that it's not good > as), which doesn't seem to be useful to LyX's native format. The other > thing it buys you is the ability to use XML tools. Unless there's one > that provides functionality that doesn't already exist in LyX, that's > not a win either.
The real thing that it buys us is structure. The current format is entirely homegrown and not very robust. We can strip out a whole heap of kludgy code and replace it with someone else's well maintained library. That leaves us better placed to address real problems. -- Angus
