I agree, the XML notation is far from perfect (see some of my posts last year about the subject,) however I consider it better than either text or this almost-JSON notation for a variety of reasons, all laid out in https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23451 for ease of reference.
Assuming that the order of fields is fixed, a fair assumption as LLSD requires it I believe, then the XSLT isn't so bad, and a prototype has already been made. On the subject of using other standard tools, such as grep/sed/awk/etc., I fully agree. This is why I'd fight against any binary or compressed format. However, no such proposal has been made. All formats so far don't have any less information in any less accessible of a format than the text files. If the file doesn't have proper line breaks, then that's another issue. Albeit one fairly easily resolved by passing it through sed with the right expression. Ricky Cron Stardust On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Argent Stonecutter <secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2010-10-15, at 16:36, Ricky wrote: >> All that's needed is a linked XSL stylesheet to make it just as easy >> to read as the text files were. > > 1. It's not in XML, it's in notation format. This is a good thing, because... > 2. LLSD is really badly designed from the point of XSL transformations. > Instead of having the type and value as attributes, they have them in > completely separate tags, so the ordering of tags matters so you have to use > streaming XSLT. > 3. There are more tools people use for browsing and reading log files than > text editors. If you can't grep it, for example, it's junk. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
