On fre, 2010-07-09 at 22:29 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think the first step is defining the source format. The proposed
> patch uses the dia XML source format, but this is said to have some
> drawbacks (namely: the source is too verbose, the generated png is too
> bloated, and only one tool to handle it).
The same is true of the DocBook toolchain, isn't it?
> SVG was also proposed as an alternative, but there wasn't much
> discussion about it.
SVG isn't a practical source format, in the same way that HTML isn't a
practical source format.