On 6/10/06, dene maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know from my experience with FGTools, FGFS and TaxiDraw that parsing the > APT file is not trivial ...the downside is of course the need for a > SpecialAPT.DAT to cater for this and the inherent support and maintenance > needed.
it's interesting that you would say this. i had the same experience when i was doing some work for an x-plane plugin, that parsing those files was tedious and so ... 1980's ... when Ben put the word out about changes to apt.data, as an RFC to the x-plane scenery list, i tried to advocate for an XML solution. i was shot down immediately, and _one_ of the reasons was that it was deemed that the current format is "simple", and an XML format is "more difficult", which i found to be the oppossite of my own thinking. it's nice to hear someone else say the current format is a pain too. Tony -- X-SA user ? 0.5.1 is out ! XData 0.1 for X-SA is out ! http://x-plane.dsrts.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
