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True. But it would have been much harder if they had to define a syntax for the entire document. I imagine they thought that the path DSL is simple enough to p
by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
True. But it would have been much harder if they had to define a syntax for the entire document.
I imagine they thought that the path DSL is simple enough to parse (and I seem to vaguely recall PostScript has something similar), while the overhead of representing path nodes as XML elements would be too high.
- wtetzner 6y agoI'm not arguing against using an existing format, BTW, just seems like a weird mixture here. I can't help but think s-expressions would have been a better choice.