Mind mapping software, was Re: Is KDE 4 Stable?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:47:19PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> Yes, it's possible - even likely - that people will create XML formats
> that aren't useful in any other application.  But it's still
> structured and readable.  And in the very worst instance (Freemind is
> abandoned, can no longer be compiled on future versions of Linux, and
> no other application can read their ".mm" files), the data can still
> be readily examined with less, or parsed and converted with a Bash
> script because it's a mark-up language - it's TEXT.  I understand your
> argument, but I consider this a significant advantage over proprietary
> binary formats.

Many xml formats have binary data chunks inside the tags.

So no xml doesn't gain you that much.

In many cases xml is better than a purely binary format, but not in
all cases.  xml does not mean open, never mind what Microsoft and such
would like to make people believe.

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Len Sorensen
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