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Subject: Re: Updating the PGN Standard using XML

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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