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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> VRML</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe give file suffix, so, for vrml classic it would be .x3dv</p><p class=MsoNormal>Please don’t overlook transcoding just parts, like interpolater sets into gltf, for example. </p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, organizing existing tools, like .x3d into .x3dv and .x3dv into .x3d? </p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">John Carlson</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:48 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a>; <a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">Don Brutzman</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[x3d-public] X3D python effort, suggested upgrades to x3d.py</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suggested upgrades to x3d.py, found in the python packages.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Python parsing of various encodings into scenegraph.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suggested encodings:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>XML</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>JSON</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>VRML</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>python dict</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are these currently present in the API?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am willing to provide a JSON parser, based on X3DJSONLD-like code--not </p><p class=MsoNormal>something spread across a lot of classes--someone else will have to </p><p class=MsoNormal>provide that. Possibly I can provide an X3DJSONLD that will convert </p><p class=MsoNormal>directly to Python object model (using classes found in x3d.py) or </p><p class=MsoNormal>python dict, instead of providing XML DOM document on output. I am not </p><p class=MsoNormal>sure at this point.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We already have XML and JSON parsing for Java. Remember that the </p><p class=MsoNormal>x3d.py is generated, I believe. Someone can correct me.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If someone wants to volunteer converting X3DJSONLD.js, X3DJSONLD.java, </p><p class=MsoNormal>or X3DJSONLD.cpp to python, raise your hand!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Before X3DJSONLD comes converting XML DOM documents to a scenegraph. </p><p class=MsoNormal>The same DOM library should be used for both XML and X3DJSONLD. If </p><p class=MsoNormal>there's no DOM loader available, I will attempt to go directly to python </p><p class=MsoNormal>object model or python dict.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Your comments are welcome!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>x3d-public mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>x3d-public@web3d.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>