[linux-audio-dev] Todays changes to "LADSPA2" strawman

[Damon Chaplin]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:02 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:14:09PM +0200, Luis Garrido wrote:
> > The RDF stuff is looking more and more arcane and hairy with each
> > iteration, with all those colons, periods and quotes, plus some
> > SQL'ish for good measure. Human readable? I begin to miss the
> > syntactic simplicity of only using angled brackets in XML. Sigh, not
> > another syntax to learn, please.
> 
> XML doesn't offer the features we need. If we define an XML schema for
> LADSPA2 descriptions, and someone extends it, you can bet your bottom
> dollar that it will break 90% of the parsers in some exciting way.

But RDF can be written in XML, so it must have the features, mustn't it?

I just find it very hard to believe that audio plugins are that special.
Everyone else seems to manage fine with XML.

Damon