Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Specs ?
From: Stefan Kost (kost_AT_imn.htwk-leipzig.de)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 11:04:35 EEST
Hi,
>
>>On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:21:55 +0200, Dr. Matthias Nagorni wrote:
>>
>>>These things could be included in an additional XML file (although 1)
>>>will be part of LADSPA 1.1 anyway). Steve already supplies XML files with his
>>>plugins. So one would only have to agree upon a standard for these XML
>>>files, right ?
>>
>>Right. I nominate RDF.
>
> What I can see from http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-primer-20020319
> is that I would not mind having a simpler solution. I don't know much
> about XML yet, but wouldn't a simple DTD do the job as well ? This DTD
> could be extended by new tags and attributes whenever a plugin writer
> needs them. So we would have an extensible and always backward compatible
> solution. QT provides several classes for XML, so implementing a host for
> this should be easy.
I don't like the idea of drawing QT in. Apart the xml+dtd way would reinvent the wheel.
rdf is commonly represented in xml. So it is not much of a difference.
So some xml component (like libxml2) would be required anyway.
Stefan
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