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

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 22:58:02 04/13/04

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On April 13, 2004 at 20:52:11, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On April 13, 2004 at 14:54:51, Andrew Wagner wrote:
>
>>
>>On April 13, 2004 at 13:53:56, Peter Schäfer wrote:
>>The idea is to store/exchange/archive games in PGML format, just like you would
>>with PGN files. Then, if you want to switch it to PGN for something, you tweak
>>one line and open it in your browser. If you want, say, a cross-table, you tweak
>>the line again and open in your browser and you get a completely different
>>result. The PGML itself doesn't get sent to the browser...XSLT transforms the
>>PGML to pure HTML and sends that to the browser.
>
>I'm not up to date with all these new tools but if the server should do the work
>(instead of the client/browser) then why not have a faster format on the server
>for search etc.
>
>As a little sidestep, I created a viewer for pgnfiles:
>
>To see the pgn-file for the St.Petersburg tournament on TWIC the link would be:
>http://norbase.sjakk.biz/pgntable.php?inter=12&lang=en&headline=15&tb1=11&tb2=12&pgnfile=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/chstp04.pgn
>
>In the table you can click on a result to see the actual game.
>
>A swizz tournament would look like this:
>http://norbase.sjakk.biz/pgntable.php?inter=12&lang=en&headline=15&pgnfile=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/cheurw04.pgn
>(pgn-file still from Twic)
>Here too you can clik on a result to see a game.
>
>I don't know the tiebreak rules for these tournaments so the table could be a
>little inaccurate.
>
>As you see this is a little slow, at least for Woman CH with a big file. A
>little help in speed would have been if I put the pgn-file on the server, but a
>DB-format would still be a lot faster.
>
>Odd Gunnar

Wow!! that is really great, do you plan to release it? (BTW it helps if the
server is fast too :) try this for speed
http://norbase.sjakk.biz/pgntable.php?inter=12&lang=en&headline=15&pgnfile=http://www.betachess.dk/cheurw04.pgn

Jonas



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