XML Interchange format

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Nibbles

I hadn't considered it to be used as a format for before matches, but that could very well be useful, if it is used as the format for a native XML database or something. How would you specify a match as unplayed? An attribute that specifies that might get redundant, since you don't usually look at the data during an event, but before or after, that would mean having to deal with a bunch of unplayed="unplayed" attributes. Is leaving out the score attribute enough to imply it is scheduled and not played yet?

For TBA, we set scores to -1 to indicate "unknown". I don't think this is a good strategy for the XML format. Maybe a "status" attribute? "future" "playing" "finished"? I am not sure entirely here how much information is too much.

For names of matches and alliances, what case should be used? Lowercase seems to fit with me, just keep things ultra-consistent. "red" "blue" "elimination" "qualification" etc.

Lowercase seems best.