Re: [Xenocide-programming] names.xml

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Hi,

Quoting James Harlow <ja...@is...>:

> Hi everyone. I'm going to be doing the modelling code, and while I was 
> getting to know the project, I thought I'd take the liberty of cleaning 
> up names.xml into proper xml with a DTD (document type declaration) so 
> it validates.
It was me who made it, and it was supposed to be XML like, not strict XML 
(cause I never had done it). The idea was having a simple database to store 
the names to be used in the random name generation, in a simple fashion. 
However, the changes are not dramatical and I think it would complicates too 
much the parsing (less if we can use a proper XML parser to do that)... So 
good job.

> 2. XML Comments. XML comments go like this: <!-- this is a comment -->. 
> Technically they're a little more involved than this, but everyone I 
> know thinks that using complex comments is a bad idea. C and C++ 
> comments are not valid.
Part of XML like desitions.

> 1. Improve the type-checking in the DTD. Most of the data isn't checked 
> at all, and it could be - for example the <probability group="country"> 
> could be checked to make sure country was a country that had been 
> defined in <namegroups>.
And how you do that? Excuse my maybe lame questions, but Ive never done XML, 
DB and Bussiness applications are not my strong point...

> 3. Write a tool so that designers don't have to edit the XML manually. 
> It's my opinion that the only people who ever see text files should be 
> programmers, everyone else should have tools.
Yes all agree on that, and the tools we are doing comes from that philosofy. 
For instance the PAQ Explorer and the repository are just 2 of them...

> 4. Add a namespace. All our XML should be put in our own namespace,
> eventually.
Again, how?

> 5. (And I'm an idiot for forgetting to do this) Put a version attribute 
> in the <database> element.

Greetings
Red Knight