[WF-Protocols] Prototype implementation from proposal

[Matze Braun]

Sorry, I totally missed this mail in the spam flood it seems :-(

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Miguel Guzman Miranda wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 	Sorry for not being around, spent half the week at the LinuxTag giving
> around Worldforge flyers and showing some cool stuff :)
:-)

> 
> 	Matze: I don't know if the current proposal is deemed acceptable by the
> people around or is it simply that the traffic on the list has stalled.
> In any case I think it's a good starting point so, what do you think
> about starting the implementation? 
Yes, if there are no more comments about the format then a first 
implementation would be a good idea. I think we could write a C++ library 
which parses the xml into C structs and can write xml from these C 
structs.

> 
> 	We could make a loader and a writer for the omf.xml file (and define a
> memory data model for it), and perhaps we both could do some converters,
> like for instance for Ogre, Cal3D and Crystalspace. Interested? 
Yes this loader/writer part could be an independent library. At the moment 
I'm wondering what xml parser to use. It seems the best free ones are 
libxml2 and xerces-c.
Both seem to be very powerfull xml parsers. At the moment I tend towards 
using libxml2 as this seems to be more widely used in the free software 
world at the moment (gnome and some kde apps I think).
I'm trying to define memory structures and a SAX parser for the format, 
however I'm not sure how long that'll take because I'm busy with 
university. But I'll try to at least create a writer (as this should be 
easy...) very soon.

Greetinsg,
	Matze