Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:43 pm
Another stupid idea... Shared libraries for effect functions. See my thread in programming for details.
XML can be interpreted by the program any number of different ways and I’m not sure exactly how freeorion does it, but most programs I know of use tinyXML which does a very good job. It converts the entire document into a tree of XML elements and portions of that tree can be passed around. So you can have a function like this:
bool loadPlanet(TiXmlElement planetData);
and have a loadSystem function that calls loadPlanet for every planet element, ad nauseam.