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On 20. 12. 2015 21:37, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) 
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via
>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
>>> wrote:
>>>> I do not think file format is important.
>>> You are absolutely right about this, the data model is the challenge,
>>> not how to store it, that's trivial.
>>>
>> But if you're going to go with a plain text format, you'd want a good
>> reason to choose XML, as its the least readable option.
> It would be very readable if good graphical viewers where avaialable for Linux but I searched for linux viewers and did not find in debian. If no good parsers are available I guess there is no good reason at all.

With good graphical viewer also compressed encrypted binary format is 
very readable.

For readable plaintext format you need nothing more than text editor 
with functionality of Notepad.

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