[seqfan] Re: Run Superseeker on existing sequence?

[Donald Alan Morrison]

>  *  A while back some seqfans looked into specifying an XML schema for OEIS
> entries, as an alternative to the classic "human readable" format.  It would
> be relatively trivial to convert between them, and would enable then folks
> to implement custom renderings, web services (eg other seekers) etc.  Maybe
> this would be more timely to pursue nowadays?

Personally, I find JSON much more human readable than XML, and just as
easy (if not easier) to validate.  Also, I believe some are working on
a serialized (protobuf style) format to supplement the plain text
format.  If you define your stream well, even enabling compression can
be feasible.  XML can work too, I just think that people get caught up
in the schema definition and transforms, which pile up (snowball),
rather than focusing on the lightweight problem at hand.  Just my two
cents USD (sorry I'm Euro deprived :-).

http://json.org/