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Has someone mcm.ini and mame.xml (and controls.dat) combined?
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MaMeNnO:
Well, that's far from what I'm planning on doing. I mean, I see the advantage of combining several files, but what good will it be to just dump it in a file and then read the dumped file again in another program???

I'm dreaming of a piece of public code with API calls for doing things like: read this file in a list, sort it on this key, combine these lists with this key, etc.
NOP:

--- Quote from: MaMeNnO on March 30, 2007, 11:46:45 am ---Well, that's far from what I'm planning on doing. I mean, I see the advantage of combining several files, but what good will it be to just dump it in a file and then read the dumped file again in another program???

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It does me a LOT of good-my software reads exactly 1 xml file.  Currently there's data that I would like to see in 2 xml files.  As previously mentioned, I'm lazy to re-write my code, and this is a perfect solution for me!   :D

Merging the 2 xml files would be a 1 time process; whenever a new MAME and a new controls.xml file is available (in other words, not that often).  After that, all software would only need to import that 1 file to do their respective jobs.

-jeff!
NOP:
for anyone still interested in this thread, I kicked up a program to merge mame's -listxml + controls.xml (aka, controls.dat) + catver.ini

The output file is another xml file; essentially mame's XML file with data from controls and catver injected into ROM's <game> </game> field. 

This was done entirely for ROMLister's use, but may come in handy for others.

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/mmm.html

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