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On 12/20/2015 06:26 AM, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> If you want a tree structure you could just as well use the
> filesystem, and if you want to make it just one file, use tar.
> There is no reason to invent "new" fileformats for that.

I think he is thinking of trees of relation of parts of a design, such as
a via including pads on layers and maybe the plated through plating, and at
the same time a net including conductive segments of a trace and that same via pad as the via includes.

That would be slow to process through in filesystem dirs and maybe not possible to have one pad be part
of two trees.