Attached find a fragment that I extracted from the "unofficial"* TWX V2 XML spec that I have been working on.
I am requesting comments for additions and exclusions to this format
Some of the changes I have made are
Changed the Sector.nr, Sector.Warps, Sector.Updated Fields and replaced it with the Index,Warps,Updated attributes
Changed the Port Class and Port Updated to also be attributes.
Here is a snippet of an XML file dump of a sector using the bits and pieces I grabbed from the XML spec.
<SectorData version="1.0">
<Sector Index="6415" Warps="1" Updated="12/18/2009 10:15:17 AM">
<Space>uncharted space.</Space>
<Beacon>A Gang of Hermits</Beacon>
<NavHaz>0</NavHaz>
<Anomaly>false</Anomaly>
<Explored>Holographic</Explored>
<Density>16801214</Density>
<Warps>
<Warp>13181</Warp>
</Warps>
<Port Updated="12/17/2009 9:57:52 AM" Class="2">
<Name>Jundland Annex</Name>
<UnderConstruction Finished="0"/>
<FuelOre>
<Buyer>true</Buyer>
<Amount>25010</Amount>
<Percentage>100</Percentage>
</FuelOre>
<Organics>
<Buyer>false</Buyer>
<Amount>4860</Amount>
<Percentage>100</Percentage>
</Organics>
<Equipment>
<Buyer>true</Buyer>
<Amount>4750</Amount>
<Percentage>7</Percentage>
</Equipment>
</Port>
<ArmidMines>
<Amount>150</Amount>
<Owner Corp="True"/>
</ArmidMines>
<LimpetMines>
<Amount>150</Amount>
<Owner Corp="True"/>
</LimpetMines>
<Fighters>
<Amount>3360000</Amount>
<Owner Corp="True"/>
<Type>Defensive</Type>
</Fighters>
<Planets>
<Planet1><<<< (E) Ascian Wanderer Homeworld >>>> </Planet1>
<Planet2><<<< (E) Ferrengal >>>> (Shielded)</Planet2>
<Planet3><<<< (E) . >>>> (Shielded)</Planet3>
</Planets>
<Traders>
<Trader1>
<Name>Private Maniac</Name>
<ShipName>.</ShipName>
<ShipType>Animoso Standard Issue</ShipType>
<Figs>8000</Figs>
</Trader1>
</Traders>
<Ships>
<Ship1>
<ShipName>.</ShipName>
<ShipType>Unknown Ascian Boat of Humility</ShipType>
<Owner>Scott</Owner>
<Figs>279999</Figs>
</Ship1>
<Ship2>
<ShipName>Iheex Chajocith</ShipName>
<ShipType>Unknown Subterfuge Mantis</ShipType>
<Owner>Scott</Owner>
<Figs>210000</Figs>
</Ship2>
<Ship3>
<ShipName>Uziel Xathiqum</ShipName>
<ShipType>Unknown Subterfuge Enterra</ShipType>
<Owner>Scott</Owner>
<Figs>139985</Figs>
</Ship3>
</Ships>
</Sector>
</SectorData>
* I say unofficial because the co-authors Earth,Stein & Macahan are AWOL. I would be glad to discuss this with them if they ever decide
to resume development.
After 2 days posted and no response I am going to commit my code in the Maniac branch
At this point I really don't give a rats Butt whether this is compatable with anything else. Heh the source is open UNLIKE anything else on the market right now that might need access to the twx proxy database.
As far as using this for saving and restoring databases it is gonna need some improvements as it takes forever to save 20K sectors.
Part of this is because XML is more verbose than we need... who needs opening and closing braces/ <Start of Data> ....</Start of Data>.
Couple ideas to add to this lame thread.
Setting a bunch of attributes attached to the Sector could save a whole bunch of chars.
We have some duplicated information that we could consolidate into attributes
12/28/09 Update 20K sector save takes roughly 7 minutes and make a file about 8-9MB in size
Swath's version 2 twx save takes about 3 minutes and is about same amount in size.
Memory footprint from olderversion was about 1G in size this version around 700MB
IMHO still too large.
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