Christian Vest Hansen schreef: > If we decide on XML, at least do it right ;) > > I've attached a version of repair.xml that have been refactored to the > way *I* think it should be structured. What's not visible is the link > to the XSD Schema that defines the structure of this particular XML > format: the tree-structure, including the various property tags and > their datatypes. > > A key part of XML is that it should be self-describing, which you > won't get if you have <property> tags with "name" attributes. > Besides, attributes should be reserved for *meta-data* (data about the > actual data) and not the *actual* data, which should instead be kept > between the start and end tags. > > With this in mind, we get an XML format that is more concise, more > readable, easier to search with XPath, easier specify in XSD Schemas, > and so forth... (here follows a lengthy and boring speech on how Good > Design Pays!) > > Anyway, you get the point :) Erm, yep, point taken. I see you're going to design the XML Schema ;-) .
I agree with you that the element name should be the descriptor of the data (rather than a name attribute). It happened to be late at the time that I created that XML-file so I've got an excuse ;-) . The only comment I've got on your XML-file is the inconsistency in notation of <techLevel />. Both ZNULLREPAIR and LightRepair1 are of level ALL, for the first you simply write it down as ALL, for the last you use the number -1. I'd use numbers for all of those. Apart from that I think it looks good. Christian Vest Hansen schreef: > PS. > > I doubt that the size of the XML files is any issue. I think you'll > find that once stored in the zip-compressed .wz format, the XML files > will be reduced to half-size or less. Size will most likely be the last thing to consider a problem (even without compression). (Unless you'd want to compile wz to run on a gameboy or something similar). -- Giel
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