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> Nonsense. There’s nothing gEDA-proprietary about records separated by newlines.
> 
> > Structure must still be understood, but that should be more
> > in the application domain (EE) rather than in the data storage domain.
> 
> Yes. And that’s why the other named things like YAML, JSON, S-record, etc. don’t solve any problem that we actually have.

There is a need for multi dimensional structure. A line may be available in several "dimensions": symbol/footprint, net, layer.

Extra "dimensions" may be added by attributes which in sort tell where it belong in a dimension. It is also possible to go the other direction.

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