XML schema for Pente games?
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Apr 5, 2001, 4:17 AM
There are a handful of Pente-playing programs out there and another handful of Pente game databases. I've seen games stored in different formats for each, such as Mark Mammel's DOS program, Oleg Stefanov's database, and Richard's PBEM Archive, for example. Any software author wanting to import that data would need custom parsers for each one.
It would be useful if we there were a standard format to communicate game information programmatically, and since XML is becoming a generic standard for data exchange I'm thinking it would be the best choice.
Is there already a de facto standard out there that I don't know about?
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Re: XML schema for Pente games?
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Apr 6, 2001, 1:14 AM
It would be useful if we there were a standard format to communicate game information programmatically, and since XML is becoming a generic standard for data exchange I'm thinking it would be the best choice.
Dweebo and I are putting together some standardized formats -- he has a database of Pente games in SQL and is working on a Java interface to access it on his site. My windows program will eventually be able to access the same type of database. The format for transmitting and recording games for his site and my program will be PGN (as discussed in earlier messages -- a text file in standard format).
XML sounds like an interesting option that we could consider.
MM
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Re: XML schema for Pente games?
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Apr 6, 2001, 8:58 AM
I couldn't agree more that XML is definitely the way to go. The only reason I haven't done so already is I haven't had the time to learn XML all that well yet
The interface to the database Mark mentioned is flexible, it can easily be extended to load/store/query games in new formats. I looked around briefly but didn't see any proposed schema for pente yet. bretmulvey, if you would be interested in working on this with us please send me an email (dweebo@w...). I would like to discuss it further with you.
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