So you want to make your own Riverscapes Project XML and Business Logic?

[joewheaton]

@MattReimer just pulled together some really helpful references if you're getting started...

Everything related to XML in riverscapes is here:

https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML
Feel free to fork it or to contribute with pull requests

Inside this repo you will find our symbology
https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML/tree/master/Symbology

Project XML

Here is the old project XML we use on https://data.riverscapes.xyz/
https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML/tree/master/Projects/XSD/V1
Notice how there is an XSD file for every project type. We are no longer doing that in the new system.

Here are some examples of the older project types:
https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML/tree/master/Projects/XSD/V1/examples

Here is the newer XML we are using:
https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML/blob/master/Projects/XSD/V2/RiverscapesProject.xsd
Notice that it is a single file that will work with all project types

Also we have some examples of the newer way of doing things:
https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML/tree/master/Projects/XSD/V2/examples

Business Logic

Examples

https://github.com/Riverscapes/RiverscapesXML/tree/master/RaveBusinessLogic

Documentation

https://rave.riverscapes.xyz/Technical_Reference/business-logic.html

https://riverscapes.xyz/Tools/Technical_Reference/Documentation_Standards/Riverscapes_Projects/

XML Writing in VSCode

We use the VSCode extension by redhat that allows us to validate our XML and use autocomplete etc.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-xml

You can find our QRave QGIS plugin on the plugin store (you need to turn on Experimental plugins to see it though)
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qrave_toolbar/