[Freeciv-Dev] Re: cityname patch

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

måndagen den 26 februari 2001 17:03 skrev Reinier Post:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:16:18PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > XML for Xconq was discussed recently, although the conclusion was
> > that it was more complex than GDL and didn't have any clear advantage,
> > except perhaps for greater familiarity (let us not say "buzzword
> > compliance" :-) ).
>
> If XML is adopted, in my opinion it the reason should be the
> introduction of a proper parser.  Another possible reason would be
> different use of the same files, eg. for parsing by utilities written
> in a different language.  There are already a few Perl programs out
> there which parse Freeciv rulesets or savefiles.

To decide which is best of XML and GDL for rulesets we have to try to format 
the data in the two formats and see which way is best. How would you for 
example format a namer in XML (how would ng-swedish.xml look)?