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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IN link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'>Just to let everyone here know, we are using Cycles XML API. We are startup from India trying to build online visualization software. We are not famous or the ones that matter but we hope to be someday. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'>I think XML API is good and well readable and well debug-able format. It can be serialized or deseriallized easily from any software. With JSON we can reduce file-size overhead a bit. But XML is not that bad. Not sure what advantage other format in consideration will have. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'>In my opinion XML API should be continued to be improved. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif";color:black'>Prayaag <o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>