[Freeciv-Dev] Re: info in savegames [Was Re: non-existent technologies]

[Jason Dorje Short <vze49r5w@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:37:40PM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
>
> > Mike Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:21:19PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > - Use XML for savegames (and probably everything else). You can keep
> > > > > the map save format intact with XML.
> > How, exactly?
>
> I can't tell you *exactly*, but we need to use a library for the XML
> parser. It might look like this:
Yes, I'm familiar with XML.  What I don't see is how XML will make it 
easier to store the data in a 'better' way.
XML is really very similar to the registry format freeciv uses; the main 
difference is the registry format has limited depth.  But I don't see 
how this is a problem...
jason