RE: [Rails-devel] Tile orientations

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Erik Vos wrote:

> Absolutely!
>
> But even then we will need XML tile definitions like the ones we already
> have
> (Tiles.xml and TileSet.xml), because these will be used to enforce the
> rules.
> So these or similar XML files should somehow be derivable from your tile
> definitions.

My personal preference would be to have a JDBC driver for access to game 
information, and one backend could be using XML or other text files. 
However, that may not have enough others who would use a database backend 
to justify the effort (I would have it directly access my database so I 
don't have to maintain multiple copies of the same data and worry about 
keeping them up to date).

In any case, it is trivial to generate an XML file automatically from the 
database.

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