Why doesn LISCAD read and write XML and LandXML files directly?
LISCAD does in fact read and write XML files directly, but only those XML files defined by the LISCAD XML Schemas Because XML is a data definition, it is certainly possible to write any XML files directly. However there are significant disadvantages to this approach. As an example, LandXML defines a vast amount of survey and object related data. This data may not have an exact match to the data in the application producing or reading the LandXML file. Hence a decision needs to be made about how the LandXML file will be interpreted by the application using it. This leads to different “varieties” of LandXML each of which can be interpreted differently. To read or write each of these “varieties” of LandXML directly would require a different data conversion to interpret the LandXML file correctly. This would cause exactly the same problems that existed when different data formats and reports were required to be developed. Instead of developing code within LISCAD to support different XML fi
