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* Engine/*.xml - JSBSim engine and thruster config files | * Engine/*.xml - JSBSim engine and thruster config files | ||
YASim and JSBSim each uses its own XML format, which is different from the XML format used by the rest of FlightGear. For YASim, see $FG_ROOT/ | YASim and JSBSim each uses its own XML format, which is different from the XML format used by the rest of FlightGear. For YASim, see $FG_ROOT/Docs/README.yasim in the base package; for JSBSim, see the documentation at http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/. UIUC uses a non-XML config-file format. | ||
The one advantage of Yasim's approach is efficiency -- Andy copies from the XML straight into the YASim data structures, without building up and tearing down an in-memory property tree first. For large-scale XML implementations, we *have* to do things that way -- the DOM and XSLT tend to break down catastrophically for large XML documents or high volume. That's why we designed the Simple API for XML (SAX). | The one advantage of Yasim's approach is efficiency -- Andy copies from the XML straight into the YASim data structures, without building up and tearing down an in-memory property tree first. For large-scale XML implementations, we *have* to do things that way -- the DOM and XSLT tend to break down catastrophically for large XML documents or high volume. That's why we designed the Simple API for XML (SAX). | ||