Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme

From: "Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:38:47 +0000

I may have missed something here...  I thought your intent was to exchange
or pass on information to another company.  Would you not need to
standardize the XML tags so that the receiving company would know what
fields to store in its database?  What about internationalization?

We are finishing up on the rewrite of several games and while I would like
to use XML, I see no reason to add it.

Jon.

"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:8tp7pc$ll7$1@news.uni-paderborn.de...
>
> "KC Satyr" <sbrown79@kc.rr.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:iJKL5.30874$6V6.79615@typhoon.kc.rr.com...
> > I've notice a gaggle of folks brandishing XML, much like the solution
> > looking for a problem.
> > Now, I'm not putting it down, I'm warning against the use of using  the
> > brand new Acme Hammer as a universal tool. In my software development
> > experience, hobby and commercial - XML has yet to be a valued solution
for
> > me.  Nothing CSV files can't handle.
>
> The major difference is that CSV cannot cope with structured data unless
you
> have one file for each structure in your game. XML (or other formats like
> the CR format used in various Atlantis clones like GA, Eressea and
Verdanon)
> can store multiple units, regions, ships, buildings, etc. in a
hierarchical
> manner.
>
> Another big advantage of XML is that it's easy to expand it. Anyone who's
> ever changed the output of the game and then had 10 client developers tell
> them that their clients could no longer read this 'broken' format will
agree
> that compatibility is hard to achieve when you're making weekly changes to
> the game.
>
> For Eressea, we've thought of scrapping CR and using XML output several
> times in the past, but the amount of tools that use the old format and
would
> have to be rewritten from scratch have so far dissuaded us. For a new
game,
> yes, I would send out turn reports in XML.
>
> Enno.
>
>
>

References

XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:02:52 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
Tim Lomas <tim@nospam.antsnest.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:14:14 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"KC Satyr" <sbrown79@kc.rr.com>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:54:22 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:12:13 +0000

Referenced By

XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:02:52 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
Tim Lomas <tim@nospam.antsnest.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:14:14 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"KC Satyr" <sbrown79@kc.rr.com>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:54:22 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:12:13 +0000