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Originally Posted by ArchMageZeratuL
Well, with the notorious exception of override tags, ASS/SSA are very easy to parse... I believe that XML just DOESN'T WORK for subtitles. This might be related to my reluctance to write an USF parser/writer into Aegisub.  |
I think XML works for subtitles pretty well, since you can have a lot more control over how the overrides interact with each other. It's the "human-editable" part that is the problem. However, I wouldn't see a problem with a rich-text-ish GUI editor editing XML subs. At least having the "text" portion being in XML instead of including the timecodes as well in XML would be interesting, since that has built in restrictions for keeping all the text nodes in one line, which would make parsing a bit easier (don't have to worry about how line breaks are handled).