[gdal-dev] RFC 44: Add Parseable Output Formats for ogrinfo and gdalinfo

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Robert Coup <robert.coup <at> koordinates.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> Good work, thanks for taking this on!
> 
> 1: Is there any particular reason to implement XML? Every language has a
good JSON parser these days, as you note in the RFC XML is more complex to
implement, and it's not like strict schemas or streaming (usual reasons for
XML) are going to be in place.
> 

Hi,

Despite requiring a bit more work for implementing, would it make living any
harder afterwards if there is a support for both XML and json outputs? There
are for sure such GDAL users who use more XML than json in their everyday work.

-Jukka Rahkonen-