sanklovich
04-18-2009, 03:01 PM
I've been working on being able to convert the .xml files included in aion into a readable format. From what i can tell so far, there is a big block of strings at the start that includes both tag names and also the data that goes inside the tags. After that is some meta-data that i assume is used to rebuild the xml files. http://aion-emu.com/index.php/topic,105.0.html is a post where you can see someone else who has been working on it, and has a method that works on one file, but it appears to just be a coincidence. I've been banging my head against a wall trying to figure out how to parse this file, but i'm not having any luck so far. The meta data appears to be simply one byte entires, that i would think would simply just index the string table, but that doesnt seem to be the case. You can download an example file from the link above. anyone think they could help?