An idea came up recently in a thread on Gamedev.net about scripting where someone made the statement that Lua tables would be more convenient for storing data than would XML. I don’t have any idea as to the veracity of that statement, but I do know two things:

  1. There are more tools to work with XML than there are Lua
  2. Parsing XML in Lua sounds dumb

Read the rest of “Converting Simple XML to Lua Tables with XSLT”…