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xml gauges and fsx performance
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None whatsoever.
Unless I have some compelling need for the scant handful of new features, I simply refuse to use the overly verbose, bloated, and obscenely complicated FSX XML Schema...
The FS9 XML Schema is simpler, and best of all will work equally well in FS9 and FSX...
Unless I have some compelling need for the scant handful of new features, I simply refuse to use the overly verbose, bloated, and obscenely complicated FSX XML Schema...
The FS9 XML Schema is simpler, and best of all will work equally well in FS9 and FSX...
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I am in this camp as well!
Bill, that is an excellent description of the new schema BTW
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FSXA XML performance, schema and DTD
Since the ACES method generates more code there probably is a very small decrease in performance.
I agree with both of you that simple XML code is better. I have not used the FS9 schema and would be interested in a description of it. However I have always used the FS9 DTD because it really helps minimise structural errors. The DTD suggests code fragments and lets you know if you have entered code where it should not be.
The problem I found with the DTD was that it objected when I tried to use the added objects in the FSXA SDK. For example it would not allow use of CustomDraw objects. To get over that problem I added sections to the DTD that covered all the variables I needed for XML Gauge Maps. Similarly I have added most of the element objects in the SDK that were not in the FS9 original version.
My DTD is not complete but I would be happy to post it if it was useful to others and would really like some feedback on it.
I use a basic version of XML SPY for gauge coding that supports DTD and Schema. If there is an updated schema available I'd love to get it.
Roy
Since the ACES method generates more code there probably is a very small decrease in performance.
I agree with both of you that simple XML code is better. I have not used the FS9 schema and would be interested in a description of it. However I have always used the FS9 DTD because it really helps minimise structural errors. The DTD suggests code fragments and lets you know if you have entered code where it should not be.
The problem I found with the DTD was that it objected when I tried to use the added objects in the FSXA SDK. For example it would not allow use of CustomDraw objects. To get over that problem I added sections to the DTD that covered all the variables I needed for XML Gauge Maps. Similarly I have added most of the element objects in the SDK that were not in the FS9 original version.
My DTD is not complete but I would be happy to post it if it was useful to others and would really like some feedback on it.
I use a basic version of XML SPY for gauge coding that supports DTD and Schema. If there is an updated schema available I'd love to get it.
Roy
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hahahahahahahahaha
I agree, but no-one is going to call the fs2004 xml programming language a paragon of design elegance either
Having written thousands and thousands of lines of reverse-polish XML scripting without a sensible way to comment the code I've become something of a connoisseur of the language but it's still like rubbing my eyes with a cheese-grater.
The placement and movement of graphic elements is ok IMHO but the scripting desperately needs a proper language (like LUA maybe - my guess is we'll see that in MS Flight.)
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The absolutely silliest "improvement" of the FSX XML Schema was to take the perfectly sensible ability to declare "options" in the <FormattedText> statement and break it down into new, separately tagged statements...
Instead of one, compact and sensible entry, now EIGHT separate <Tags> are required! Stupid!
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<FormattedText X="32" Y="20" Font="Arial Bold" FontSize="18" Adjust="Right" Color="White" Bright="Yes">Instead of one, compact and sensible entry, now EIGHT separate <Tags> are required! Stupid!
