Re: [Pybem-developers] Re: base36!

[Adrian S. <fo...@ii...>]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Anthony Briggs wrote:

> At 10:23 PM +0800 25/6/02, Adrian Smith wrote:
> >OK, deal, you do the items/skills and I'll do a parser.
> >We should be able to read in the items/skills from an XML file.
>
> I would prefer something a little more human-readable/writable, but
> it's up to you - maybe we could have some sort of switch to read in
> XML/text.
>
There are lots of tools available to read/write/edit/analyse XML,
so it just makes sense. No reason we can't have converters, to/from
plain text or whatever, or a custom GUI to create the XML config file.

> I just think that the syntax (at least for specifying items) would be
> better as something like:
>
> skill knight
> synonyms knig
> effect +lvl combat
>         +lvl upkeep
> requires skills sword riding shield heraldry
>           items sword horse plate_armour shield
>
> I think it's less readable as something like:
>
> <skillspec>
>      <synonyms>knig</synonyms>
>      <effect><bonus addto="combat">+lvl</bonus>
>              <require type="skill">combat</require>
>              <require type="skill">sword</require>
>              <require type="skill">riding</require>
>              <require type="skill">shield</require>
>              <require type="skill">heraldry</require>
>              <require type="item">sword</require>
>              <require type="item">horse</require>
>              <require type="item">plate armour</require>
>              <require type="item">shield</require>
>      </effect>
> </skillspec>
>
> I've expounded on this at length, so I'll shut up now, but just so
> you know what I think ;)  Feel free to poke your nose into items if
> you like...
>
> Ant
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