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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:31:59 +0200
From: Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso <sdaoden@gmail.com>
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Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

 |>> but still not anywhere as readable as bsdlabel.
 |>>
 |>
 |> I did specifically say 'machine readable'. The XML is well-formed,
 |XML is stupid. everything you can do with XML can be better described 
 |using "ancient" style text format

Or, if all fails, YAML-is-JSON, which is much easier and cheaper
to parse (than ML), but still a well-defined standard and, in
comparison, human readable.

--steffen