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Onno Kreuzinger
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Default Re: Waypoint Viewer for all bots? - 29-01-2004

pro:
xml is nice if the format changes often, also it makes building a database easy and it can be parsed faster then flat files.

con:
it needs more work to define the structure and gives bigger files.

sum:
for waypoints only the database aspect could be of interesst, allthough far away, a (mega) database of waypoints sounds very nice and would boost usability of bots to a comercial grade level. but this would be a large project of it's own and can be done later anyways.
For other projects it worked perfectly to define a propietary format and offer open source c/c++ tools, this apllies to bots esp. since the dev. community is rather small.

i personaly think flat files are enough, loading speed is no issue on a server and having a common format is a big gain allready, open tools would open all possibilities, even the crazy database ...

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