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Vas Crabb
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Re: History.dat, the XML
12/30/20 07:10 AM
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I also support switching to XML – it’s easier to parse, more tools support it, etc. But would it be cleaner to do it like this? Element/attribute names are preliminary, but the structure should be apparent.

Code:


<history>
    <entry>
        <systems>
            <system name="99lstwar" />
            <system name="99lastwara" />
        </systems>
        <text>The text goes here, remember to use CDATA if ignorable whitespace becomes an issue...</text>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <software>
            <item list="nes" name="002agent" />
            <item list="nes" name="002agentb" />
            <item list="nes" name="002agenta" />
        </software>
        <text>Description for software.</text>
    </entry>
</history>



This approach would be a lot easier to automatically generate bindings for (e.g. in .NET languages or with XSDC++), and easier to load into a database.






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* History.dat, the XML Alexis B. 12/29/20 11:21 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML soviet  12/31/20 03:02 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML motoschifo  12/31/20 07:39 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Vas Crabb  12/30/20 07:10 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/30/20 03:05 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Vas Crabb  12/30/20 03:28 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/30/20 03:32 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Vas Crabb  12/30/20 03:51 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/30/20 04:18 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Vas Crabb  12/30/20 04:28 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/30/20 07:16 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Vas Crabb  12/31/20 05:08 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/31/20 08:46 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML crazyc  01/01/21 12:03 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  01/01/21 02:23 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Vas Crabb  01/01/21 03:11 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  01/01/21 03:21 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/30/20 05:19 PM
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. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/31/20 02:26 PM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML StilettoAdministrator  01/01/21 01:01 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML crazyc  12/30/20 01:15 AM
. * Re: History.dat, the XML Alexis B.  12/30/20 02:07 AM
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