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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smetzger" data-source="post: 358927" data-attributes="member: 1230">But that is not a human reading the statblock.  That is a computer.  I am sure that IF e-tools and PCGen exported a character in XML format as well as statblock that you would have used the XML interface.I don't mind having a standard for a human readable statblock.  However, if we are going to have a standard for computers reeading a character I think it should be XML or even comma delimited.There is not much we can do about e-tools in its present incarnation.  However, if an XML standard was made I am sure that most if not all the 3rd party software development people could be convinced to use it.  I also think that there is an equal chance to convince future incarnations of e-tools to follow an XML standard as there is of convincing them to follow a statblock standard.</blockquote>