Quote Originally Posted by frederf View Post
I (as a programmer) greatly prefer XML. Many programming languages can consume XML natively, and allow you to easily get to the data that you need.

Fred
That's perfectly fine for me if you do, but please don't expect everybody else to share that liking.

I (as a programmer) greatly prefer CSV, because it is much less redundant, much more efficient, and I can easily use it with any database (they either import it natively or with some simple helper), (web-)programming language (like perl) and a myriad of tools (like awk) that I often work with and that are more than appropriate to use with the data exported from OCD. And if I'd ever be tempted to import this data into any kind of office application, I can also do that with CSV, even with all that ms crap (god forbid!) ...

So I really don't understand, why I should waste my resources or time with anything less reasonable. But the world is flat, isn't it?

-pn