[Dev] XML for CPIA

[John Anderson]

I agree with all of Bryan's comments.

I'd prefer a single format that works for all kinds of repository data, 
not just CPIA blocks. If I were going to optimize editing and 
construction of CPIA blocks, I'd much prefer a GUI builder to yet 
another XML format. Having a way to "compile" and "decompile" repository 
data would be a useful if we had a GUI builder, but it would be much 
more useful if the format it used was familiar -- after all look how 
many people took the time to understand andi's pack XML format.

Finally, Python would probably load faster than XML, produce better 
error messages, require less maintenance, and be more flexible than yet 
another XML format.

John

Bryan Stearns wrote:

> I don't see why this is necessary:
> - It's another syntax to learn, but who'll learn it?  Most parcel 
> developers who are adding item types will mostly just be writing 
> detail-view trees of blocks; I'm looking forward to rewriting the 
> detail view's parcel.xml as Python, so the ready examples that 
> developers will have will be Python. Few non-Python developers will be 
> customizing other parts of the UI, at least in the next year or so.
> - The syntax isn't better: while it might be familiar to HTML 
> programmers just because it's XML, it isn't simpler or terser than the 
> equivalent Python code given in the example.
>
> (and what's with the "<ref: 22d5dbf0-0921-11da-ab3d-00054e47c157>"?)
>
> ...Bryan
>
>
> Alec Flett wrote:
>
>> Here's a very quick overview of my XmlForCpia proposal. I have 
>> already implemented the parser that does all of these things, as well 
>> as a tool that dumps the current block structure from a 
>> currently-running chandler into XmlForCpia format (in fact that's 
>> where the same code comes from)
>
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