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Message: <blockquote data-quote="andargor" data-source="post: 1951628" data-attributes="member: 7231">I wholly agree with this approach, and it has been my opinion for a long time that PCGen has not leveraged this. The data is mixed in with scripting which depends on code, so any changes in data have a great probability of breaking backward compatibility, even with recent minor versions.Don't get me wrong, the PCGen people are working hard to make the program stable, and I don't want to seem to disparage that.I've myself taken a stab at this approach, and other people as well. You may want to look at their work for ideas.You may want to take a look at Vascant's effort in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109406" target="_blank">this thread</a>. What he's building is an NPC generator, but there may be ideas you can reuse. I don't know if he makes the source code available, but you can always ask.Frugal has attempted a Java version of a Universal Character Generator (UCG) that implements an engine-data separation approach, and it is very promising. It uses XML as data and for processing directives. His code is available in the PCGen-XML yahoo group, <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen-xml/" target="_blank">here</a>. You may have to subscribe to the group (free). The code is in the Files section, and is called charactergen-0.0.2.zip. He has a CVS set up <a href="http://www.purplewombat.co.uk/viewcvs/" target="_blank">here</a>. I can give you his email address, just contact me at <a href="mailto:andargor@yahoo.com">andargor@yahoo.com</a>.For myself, I have a small demo of a C++ application using XML to load game system data <a href="http://www.andargor.com/files/panther-demo.zip" target="_blank">here</a>. It just generates a 25th level Barbarian, and it includes the SRD system definitions in XML.It's a combination of C++, LibXML, and SpiderMonkey (Mozilla's Javascript engine). I know I warned you about Javascript, but that's because of the different ways browsers implement it. For offline use, it's great. What I use it for is to allow user scripting using a recognized language. This allows the game system to be defined outside of the C++ engine, and allows users to add custom content or other "modules".I heven't worked on my engine in quite a while, time being at a premium these days. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />HTH,AndargorEDIT: I forgot to add that there are commercial products as well that use XML data, like Twin Rose's CSX. But of course, sources are not available.</blockquote>

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