Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 10:22:03 06/09/04
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On June 08, 2004 at 23:56:06, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >>> >>>As for engine developers I would think it would be a little more cumbersome to >>>add a XML parser (unless it's opensource and just linked to an existing one). >> >>I really don't see how this would be too much harder than writing a full PGN >>parser. Of course, for a .Net engine, this would be very easy, but I >>digress...:) >> >> > >I started looking into this further after my first post. I agree especially if >you're using Visual Studio you could just use XML DOM and voila :) > >I wrote a small PGN parser, but it was pretty generic and really only handle a >couple key fields and the moves. I see that if you wanted more information such >as comments or analysis information this could become a problem. Your comment >on just adding a <annotate></annotate> tag would make it a lot easier. > >Alas I see the difference. More power to you guys or whomever wants to develop >this further. If there is an active project up, I'd be willing to help out if >it's an OSS project. > >It shouldn't be to hard to whip together a pgn->xml translator. Especially if >you just use the field names as the tag names <site><white><black><date> etc.. > >Sincerely, >Joshua Shriver This is already done...at least a preliminary version is written.
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