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MetronInfo.xml

What is it?​

A new XML schema for comic book's metadata, which hopes to improve some of the deficiencies that exist with the ComicInfo.xml schema.

Rationale​

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 Elements for 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 ID elements 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.