[OSC_dev] Adding OSC support to VLC

[Steve Harris]

On 25 Nov 2008, at 03:13, Andy W. Schmeder wrote:

> On Nov 24, 2008, at 4:58 PM, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>
>> It would be great to get a proper discussion forum going on this. I
>> think
>> a nice idea would be for the author(s) of each application to list  
>> the
>> functions that they would implement via OSC, and then try to work
>> out some
>> common kind of syntax.
>
>
> I prefer a model similar to that used with XMLSchema.
>
> In other words, don't standardize anything, but include an option to
> declare which standards an endpoint conforms to.  It would be also
> convenient to support shorthand prefixes and default namespaces in the
> same manner as XML.

I like the way RDF works in that respect, it's very flexible, and easy  
to extend.

OTOH, RDF parsers are less common that XML parsers.

- Steve