Re: Structured (XML-like) input/output for shell apps?

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
> Yes, and I withdraw :-) what I said about XML. But *any*
> serialization / deserialization necessary for this scheme to work
> would add (unnecessary) overhead. This and the fact that you would

Well, if you can do it with Perl without overhead, you can of course
also do it without Perl without overhead.
In that case the 'structured' support would be included in the utility itself.