[gurps] Building a VehicleML

[Gerald "roguebfl" Grenier]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Bryan <brakeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it not be easier to setup a database, create your tables and
> such and then output your tables to XML?
>
> I mean, this is where you are heading to.  XML and DB kind of go hand
> in hand.  Seems to me that making a DB would be easier.  Using
> something like Postgresql (low memory, low footprint) would be your
> best bet.  Plus XML is easy to import or export.  You can then
> web-enable it through the DB if you wanted.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan

Actually XML is a text based database (remember a spread sheet is just
a flat field database as well)

while SQL querying for a database is quite powerful, requires firs
that you have access to a SQL server, and a lot of people can't get
access to a SQL because they dont have that level of acess provied by
their host. XML/XSL does not require a SQL server.

It should be noted the "database" for the game Civilization IV is XML

the upside to XML is the data is human readability, so you can go an
in tweak a value with not more the a plain text reader like notepad.
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