[WF-Protocols] [Fwd: About the .X format

[Eason Choo]

>
> I am just suggesting
> Here are my reasons:
> 1. It is ascii and documented very well.
> 2. Nearly all modellers have exporters (including blender)

This really isn't an issue since unless you're implying we don't need to 
make any changes/extensions to the .x format there will be changes 
necessary for the .x exporters.

>
> 3. It is extensible and you can define your own data objects on the fly.
> 4. It has an easily readable C like syntax.

 From the program's perspective, XML is more easily readable and writable

>
> 5. The implementation of the writer plugins is uniform across 
> modellers and vendors.
>  



.x is managed by microsoft which should be reason enough not to use it. 
not becuase its microsoft, but becuase its a private corporation, and 
they're the "owners" of it, so if they decide to add their own extention 
for anything we do, all those suckers at kinetix, alias wavefront, 
newtek and whatnot, woudl support's microsofts suggested extensions.

But that is very minor compared to the fact that XMl is more standard 
then .x

anywyas, the issue at hand is not the way its written to disk but thats 
my view on the issue fo rwhen we get to it.