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Subject: Re: New Proposal: Portable Game Markup Language - feedback needed!

Author: Peter Schäfer

Date: 10:53:56 04/13/04

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Sounds interesting, but I can't tell if there is a popular demand for it !?

* there is already an XML schema, called Caxton:
 http://www.chesscity.com/Caxton/caxton_xml.htm
however, I've no idea if it is used in practice.

* if you like, I can send you some of the XML data and XSL sheets used by jose
(jose-chess.sourceforge.net)
The schema isn't public (yet), and subject to change.
Incidentally, I'm planning to use XML for cross-tables and tournament reports,
too.


just some more thoughts:

* XML files containing game data could become HUGE, much larger than PGN files.
They might not be the best choice for exchanging data, or for sending them to a
browser. Rather think about processing them on the server, and send the resultig
HTML to the browser.

* calculating a cross-table from a list of games is hardly practicabe with XSLT
(as far as I can tell). You will probably have to calculate the cross-table
beforehand, and store it in the XML file.


Regards,
Peter




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