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Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> [2021-05-19 00:04]:
>> My main problem now is escaping: I don't know how to treat escaped
>> special characters as non-special. The simplest example is in vCard
>> parsing. A property line might look like this:
>> 
>> URL;TYPE=homepage:https\://mygreatpage.com/
>
> That is when important "standards" like vCard are written by people
> that lack global knowledge of data structures. Would they write it in
> LISP data or at least XML, we could all easily parse it, including by
> using other programming languages. But no...

There have been further efforts based on XML and JSON, but nothing has
quite gained the currency of vCard, so here we are...