Poker Hand XML

[Shoe Lace]

I forgot a few attributes up top, but I can't edit the post.

- "table" can go in between 'site' and 'number' up top to include the table name.
- Blinds could be separated into 2 attributes ("sb" and "bb" to eliminate parsing).
- "mode" can go after the 'game' attribute. This will handle NL/Limit/PL, etc..

Play money shouldn't be an optional type. The currency should be null instead. A tournament type would ignore the currency attribute or maybe use "chips"/"c".

Then have an "extras" attribute up top to cover weird things like jackpot tables.

So... it would look like this in the end:
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&lt;hand date="00/00/0000 00:00:00pm" site="Poker Stars" table="Blah" number="#0000000000" currency="$" type="Cash" seats="6" game="Texas Holdem" mode="No Limit" sb="5" bb="10" extras=""&gt;
&lt;players&gt;
&lt;seat position="1" name="Jack" stack="1000"&gt;
&lt;seat position="2" name="Jill" stack="1000"&gt;
&lt;seat position="3" name="Jim" stack="1000" holecards="Kd Qd"&gt;
&lt;seat position="4" name="Jane" stack="1000"&gt;
&lt;seat position="5" name="Joe" stack="1000"&gt;
&lt;seat position="6" name="Julie" stack="1000"&gt;
&lt;/players&gt;
&lt;action&gt;
&lt;street order="1"&gt;
&lt;position="1" action="Fold" value="0"&gt;
&lt;position="2" action="Fold" value="0"&gt;
&lt;position="3" action="Raise" value="35"&gt;
&lt;position="4" action="Call" value="35"&gt;
&lt;position="5" action="Fold" value="5"&gt;
&lt;position="6" action="Fold" value="10"&gt;
&lt;/street&gt;
&lt;street order="2" board="3d Kh Td"&gt;
&lt;position="3" action="Bet" value="60"&gt;
&lt;position="4" action="Call" value="60"&gt;
&lt;/street&gt;
&lt;street order="3" board="3d Kh Td Jc"&gt;
&lt;position="3" action="Bet" value="205"&gt;
&lt;position="4" action="Call" value="205"&gt;
&lt;/street&gt;
&lt;street order="4" board="3d Kh Td Jc 2d"&gt;
&lt;position="3" action="Bet" value="525"&gt;
&lt;position="4" action="Call" value="525"&gt;
&lt;/street&gt;
&lt;showdown&gt;
&lt;position="3" hand="[Kd Qd] Td 3d 2d (King-high Flush)" result="win"&gt;
&lt;position="4" hand="[3c 3h] 3d Kh Jc (Three of a kind)" result="muck"&gt;
&lt;award position="3" value="1660" rake="5"&gt;
&lt;/showdown&gt;
&lt;/action&gt;
&lt;/hand&gt;
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[ThirdEye]

i'm in the middle of coding a poker tool myself (working on it since over a year) and asked myself similar questions about the future of HH parsing.

i think inventing our own xml standard won't help that much, because this is something the pokersites should be doing...

personally, i would be MUCH MORE interested in discussing a good poker database format.

given that database format, a standard parser (dll) would be the way to go imho.

this would tremendously cut down time both for the coders and the users.