Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 17:36:55 06/10/04
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On June 10, 2004 at 18:40:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 10, 2004 at 16:46:02, Marek Strejczek wrote: > >>I have only a little experience with XML, however realize that the new format >>should be also relatively readable for humans - many people can follow a chess >>game quite far just by looking at the SAN moves - however, only a few can do it >>having coordinate notation only. And they may prefer this kind of game browsing >>if they want to e.g. just have a glance at the openings. > > >The problem is that the moves won't be a normal list of moves like 1. e4 e5 2. >Nf3 Nf6, etc. It will look more like this: > ><MoveList> > <MoveElement> > <Time format="seconds">6</Time> > <Eval pov="white">0.60</Eval> > <Ply>10</Ply> > <PV>e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6</PV> > <Move>e2e4</Move> > </MoveElement> > <MoveElement> > <Time format="seconds">7</Time> > <Eval pov="black">0.20</Eval> > <Ply>9</Ply> > <Move>e7e5</Move> > </MoveElement> ></MoveList> > >Now consider that there might be a dozen other possible tags for each move, in >addition to <Time>, <Eval>, <Ply>, <PV>, and <Move>. Following the game from the >XML file isn't going to be very easy regardless of the notation which is used. >Therefore, human readability shouldn't be a major factor. > > [snip] This is the main point here, folks! The XML here is NOT intended for humans to read. It's intended to be PARSED. Therefore, the notation should be in whatever format is easiest for parsing. And, to me, that format is coordinate notation. Andrew
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