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[Porpoisepower]

Hey probably stupid question but... why isn't Toady using XML for the RAWs?

[Gearheart]

I would imagine it's based on .txt files so that players can edit things as they like.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

I would imagine it's based on .txt files so that players can edit things as they like.

Why not XML for the hardcoded stuff, then?

[Porpoisepower]

I would imagine it's based on .txt files so that players can edit things as they like.

Why not XML for the hardcoded stuff, then?

XML is plain text

[rex mortis]

So it is inherently neither better, nor worse than the current raws.

[Porpoisepower]

I see a couple advantages...

Minor point: There are a freely available parsers for XML that might provide more efficient parsing, and could simplify his code. Granted, Raw file parsing peformance wouldn't likely be noticable. And I doubt Toady's had to touch his parsing code in years.

3. The real benefit would be that an XML version of the raws would be much more readable. Not only in structure, but also most text editors built for writing XML provide text formatting, that make it easy to identify tags, and values.