At 06:37 PM 2/15/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> > I'm guessing that this approach will save you at
> > least 100 hours of data
> > entry time (based on how much raw data is in the
> > V2.x data files). It will
> > also let you focus your energies on the interesting
> > part of writng data
> > files instead of on data entry. :-)
>
>It took me roughly 2-3 hours to go through and try to
>clean up only a handful of units when I was trying it
>this way...The problem is that a majority of the units
>have options which are split into 6-8 separate options
>per price category (it seems that certain weapon
>options are priced differently in different
>rulesets)...Each of these 6-8 entries can be
>consolidated into a single entry with 3-4 live tags...
Based on my reading of this, your efforts were spent in cleaning up all the
links. My advice was to just delete ALL the links. This can be done by
quickly editing the raw XML file as a text file. Then the links can be
added back manually once he gets to working on that aspect. Links are
pretty quick and easy to setup in ABCreator, and they are the biggest
problem in the auto-converted files. So it's easiest just to start over
with them. :-)
-Rob
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