[ODE] XML and ODE

[John Donovan]

Hi all,
I was Googling last night for stuff about using XML files for storing
ODE worlds, and I got myself a little confused...
There's XML-ODE by Evan Drumwright, which has an API (I nearly got it to
compile under Windows last night, but then my bed called :), but no
schema. Although a schema isn't essential, and one could be generated
from the sample XML file, I'm sure.
There's X-ODE that has a schema but no C/C++ API.
Then there's a project on sourceforge that is at version 0.0.39 (or
somthing like that), which doesn't appear to have been touched in over a
year.
I want to support XML with the tool I'm writing, but I don't want to
choose a white elephant. So are any of these compatible with each other?
Which one do most people use? I want to avoid writing code to implement
the schema, so are there Windows (and other platform) binaries
available?
Finally, are there other formats that lots of people use?

-J

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