MetronInfo.xml is an attempt to create a new schema for digital comic books that fixes some of the deficiencies that exist with the ComicInfo.xml schema.
The ComicInfo.xml schema was designed for the needs of ComicRack Application (which for all intents is a dead project), and supports a fairly limited amount of data. Some benefits of a new schema would include:
- Additional
Elementsfor information. (eg. Price, Global Trade Item Numbers, Series Type, etc.) - Better handling of data types. Instead of using delimited strings for list items, we can use Arrays of
Elements. - Ability to identify where the data was obtained from. (eg. Comic Vine, Metron, Grand Comics Database, etc.)
- Add
IDelements from the Information Source to resources (Characters, Creators, etc), so items with the same name are associated correctly if used in a Plex-like Comic Server.
Since Digital Comics are just are archive files (like .zip) this new XML schema can co-exist with any existing ComicInfo.xml if needed for backward compatibility.
Currently only a draft is available located in drafts