[PD-dev] PD patches in XML

[Martin Peach]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Martin Peach wrote:
> 
> 
>>As I understand it, the XML format is only for storing patchers in a way 
>>that will ensure that they can be reliably reproduced on any supported 
>>platform.  Nobody is talking about changing messages.
> 
> 
> What counts as a platform here and what's the problem with decoding the
> .pd format on any platform from any programming language ?
In the usual sense, currently pd seems to work on linux, MacOSX, Windows...
The only problem I have with the pd format is that if you introduce new 
features into it, it's not backwards-compatible.
A robust XML parser will ignore tags it doesn't handle.

Martin