RE: [Rails-devel] Tile orientations

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

If you can already export your data to XML, I prefer using that. 

---Brett.


-----Original Message-----
>From: "John A. Tamplin" <ja...@ja...>
>Sent: Dec 26, 2005 3:49 PM
>To: rai...@li...
>Subject: RE: [Rails-devel] Tile orientations
>
>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.
>
>-- 
>John A. Tamplin					ja...@ja...
>770/436-5387 HOME				4116 Manson Ave
>                 		 		Smyrna, GA  30082-3723
>