xml inclusion supported for cfg files?

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:41 pm

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<mydocument xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/xinclude">
<xinclude:include href="custom_joystick.xml" parse="cdata"/>

Post by **klauss** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:15 pm

Is that standard xml?
I guess it's not supported, but it could be made so.

Zeog · Post by **Zeog** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:39 pm

It seems to be a realtively new standard/W3C recommendation (Nov. 15, 2006).
http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/

Post by **ace123** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:53 am

libxml probably has some support for XInclude (I found some old references to it from 2000), but Vega Strike code will also have to support inclusion (the parser just reads from a data buffer)

A bigger problem is that the configurator is not an XML parser.
Rather, vssetup just hunts through the file for XML comments. This means that it will need to be trained to parse XInclude tags too.

I think a better solution may be to have a complete XML option editor that supports key/joystick bindings, and changing option values.
Unfortunately this isn't going to happen very soon either. First, we would have to track down every place certain things are used.

Actually, it may be possible to only edit keybindings, and nothing else, as part of vssetup, but it may still become more complicated than just opening the file up in a text editor.

Post by **klauss** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:58 am

I have a small XML parsing/generation class (based on expat) that I designed specifically for that kind of task: editing. It preserves whitespace, comments, and everything you'd like it to preserve, yet presents the data structured and quickly accessible.

It'd kind of a TinyXML, but smaller (yes, smaller) and more suited to that particular task (and some others I want it to be suitable for).

I think it's been commited to SVN, in the Ogre branch.
I think.

Making a configuration editor with include support with that would be pretty simple.