Re: [GD-General] Text file parsing

[Noel L. <ll...@co...>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:16:35 +0100
Javier Arevalo <ja...@py...> wrote:

> If you're starting fresh, I would recommend using XML for structured text
> files. You can use TinyXML to read them (use google to locate it).

Yes, I was going to suggest XML as well. It's simple enough to replace
ini-like files, and complex enough that you can easily represent
hierarchical structures (very important for hierarchy/geometry
information).

I'm about to start looking into it more seriously for our next project,
so I don' t have any specific recommendations now.

I did use TinyXML for The Bidding Imp (http://www.convexhull.com/bidimp)
and it worked just fine. It has no data validation though (through DTD)
and that's something I think I would like to have, at least in the tool
side. Ideally, I'd like a parser that does both, and I can choose
whether to enable it or not. Still, it was certainly small enough (about
100KB) and it worked perfectly well just for saving/reading data.


--Noel
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