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| '''LDRAW files''' need to have a specific '''syntax''' to be understood by the various tools.
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| The syntax has been invented by [[James Jessiman]] and carefully extended since then.
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| You can find the definition of that syntax at
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| * http://www.ldraw.org/documentation/ldraw-org-file-format-standards.html
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| The syntax is taken care of by the [[LDraw Standards Board]].
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| == Advantages ==
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| * the syntax is text-based (not: binary), which makes it
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| ** easily human-readable
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| ** easily diffable by diff tools
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| ** easy to store on source code revision control systems (like for example [[git]])
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| * the syntax is quite compact:
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| ** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it (as for example in [[XML]])
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| == Disadvantages ==
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| * the syntax is "line-by-line based", this makes designing statements very difficult which aim to refer to a bunch of lines as a whole
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