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Old October 3rd, 2002, 05:07 PM
--- In cardvault@y..., Rob Bowes <rob@w...> wrote:
> At 03:11 PM 10/1/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >9. I found the problem. Several of the LOTR cards have special
> >charactors in their names. Excel doesn't know what to do with those,
> >if you change them out in the raw XML then it imports just fine.
>
> What are the special characters that Excel barfs on? It may be that
> something can be done to handle those characters differently when
exporting
> the XML data, so any assistance with this would be welcome.

Yah, my bad. What I get for grabbing the card names from the
Decipher web site. I'll have to get that fixed, along with the
card-numbering issue. That'll be a little harder, as I'm also using
the card number as part of the card *ID*, and we certainly don't want
to see what happens when I change *that*...

> >And hell if Rob can give me professional *and* affordable child-care,
> >God bless him... :-)
>
> Uh, yeah. Just put that one on the todo list. I'll see if I can get
to that
> one as soon as I have world peace and world hunger handled.... :-P

OK, there are two good items to start with - and both will be
easier than HeroClix data files!

Mark, finally joining the party.



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