[REQ] Include directive

[Deus]

I want

<include>myfile.xml</include>

It should work as if the file was pasted into the location of the include directive

I did this myself in a couple of xml languages/projects. You need some kind of stack of old xml contexts and just make a new context with the new file.

Its perfect for many things. Got a standard camera angle? Just make a file and include it. Wanna make all those SWEET default primitives once and for all? Just include the mesh

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       <include>coolmesh.xml</include>

	<model>
		<pos>0 0 0</pos>
		<scale>1.0</scale>
		<mesh_name>coolmesh</mesh_name>>
	</model>

For materials the benefit is obvious

This would be even more powerful with a concept of "current setting" or a stackbased context that would allow constructions like this

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       <include>mysweetmaterial.xml</include>
       <material>mysweetmaterial</material>
       <include>coolmesh.xml</include>

	<model>
		<pos>0 0 0</pos>
		<scale>1.0</scale>
		<mesh_name>coolmesh</mesh_name>>
	</model>

Whatcha think?

[manitwo]

i think this would be really great.
particularly with regard to arneoog's upcoming material database.

[arneoog]

That is possibe now, pretty much..
Don't remember the code.. and I can't find a file where I used it..

[ryjo]

This works since a while back:

<include>
<pathname>my-mesh.xml</pathname>
</include>
<include>
<pathname>my-materials.xml</pathname>
</include>
.. etc ...

/ryjo

[CTZn]

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<include> 
	<pathname>yourexternalfile.xml</pathname> 
</include> 

Your external file will have to be in the form of 

<scenedata> 
... 
.. 
... 
</scenedata>

reported by u3dreal

[Deus]

Thats cool! Thx

Question. Why is Onos XML always so talky?

<include file="bla bla"/> would work.. Many many tags there

[CTZn]

Hehe... I agree with you Deus, I'm refraining myself to post a request for short names for quite some days now, like <scs> instead of <scattering_coefficient_spectrum>. Would be great if Indigo could parse both of them (Maya can use 3 differents levels of concatenation for attributes, short names (ty), long names (translatey) and nice names (Translate Y), amongst them the 2 formers can be used in the same script).