Question on .rev file format

Steve Gehlbach steve at nexpath.com
Tue Jul 29 20:17:01 EDT 2003


Monte Goulding wrote:

> There was an mcRipper to save a stack as XML but I think it crashes 2.x. It
> shouldn't be too hard to modify though. I'd be very interested in a system
> that created individual XML files for each object with references to each
> other. That way it would be possible to muck around with the relationships
> between objects to improve reuse & maintainability. For example you could
> use the same card on two stacks and maintain the one source.

Yeah, lots of advantages.  I looked at the code in Application Browser 
and it all looks doable, though I am not sure you can get all of the 
properties of an object (at least, this is what the docs say for 
"properties").  I guess XML is as good a format as any.

-Steve




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