initial d files

[darnold02 at sprynet.com]

Hi! I'm new to CV (and XML, for that matter) and have been thinking about augmenting the Initial D card set with some extended stats (breakdown of cards by various counter and attack strengths, etc). However, it appears that there are some high-ascii characters that choke my xml parser. For example, the ellipses in the text description for '5...4...3...2...1' give me problems:

<card id="ini102" name="5...4...3...2...1" description="Speed Maneuver{BR}You may only play 5…4…3…2…1 in the first stage of the race." flavor="The real starting line is the first corner!" deck="deck1">

I'm trying to use Python's pyXml package to do the parsing, if that matters. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Don


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[edward at bolme.com]

> Hi! I'm new to CV (and XML, for that matter) and have been thinking about
augmenting the Initial D card set with some extended stats (breakdown of
cards by various counter and attack strengths, etc).

I've already done that for the raw data, anbd the data is queued up for
Colen to get to. If you want, we can jointly move forward with this. I can
get and parse the data (being a personal friend of the designer, and all) if
you can handle the XML coding.




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[darnold02 at sprynet.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Bolme" <edward@bolme.com>
To: cv@support.wolflair.com
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CardVault] initial d files


> > Hi! I'm new to CV (and XML, for that matter) and have been thinking
about
> augmenting the Initial D card set with some extended stats (breakdown of
> cards by various counter and attack strengths, etc).
>
> I've already done that for the raw data, anbd the data is queued up for
> Colen to get to. If you want, we can jointly move forward with this. I can
> get and parse the data (being a personal friend of the designer, and all)
if
> you can handle the XML coding.

Actually, the datafile author did a great job of breaking out the individual
stats in the XML. I was just having problems parsing some of the high-ascii
characters that were used, _not_ volunteering to become the official
maintainer. ; ) I'm just thinking of throwing together a deck-reporting
extension that summarizes how many cards you have that can counter a
strength 6 Tactics manuever, how many cards have a strength 8 in obstacle
stages, etc.

Thanks,
Don

btw: L5R was really an excellent piece of work.





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[darnold02 at sprynet.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: "squid_5cm" <squid2k1@hotmail.com>
To: cv@support.wolflair.com
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: initial d files


> --- In cardvault@yahoogroups.com, "don arnold" <darnold02@s...> wrote:
> > I'm trying to use Python's pyXml package to do the parsing, if that
> >matters. Anyone have any ideas?
> I am not familiar with Python that much. But, if you want to email
> me the XML, I could take a look at it to see how MSXML 4 handles it.
> I develop in XML all the time, so hopefully I can help.
>

Thanks, but I think I have it covered. Basically, there were places where
ascii 133 was used for an ellipsis, and 145 for a leading single quote. I've
submitted a 'corrected' file to support@wolflair.com that doesn't have the
high-ascii characters. Hopefully, they'll agree with my fixes. If not, I'll
just pre-process the file before I start parsing it.

Thanks again,
Don




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[Colen]

At 08:21 AM 1/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi! I'm new to CV (and XML, for that matter) and have been thinking about
>augmenting the Initial D card set with some extended stats (breakdown of
>cards by various counter and attack strengths, etc). However, it appears
>that there are some high-ascii characters that choke my xml parser. For
>example, the ellipses in the text description for '5...4...3...2...1' give
>me problems:
>
> <card id="ini102" name="5...4...3...2...1" description="Speed
> Maneuver{BR}You may only play 5…4…3…2…1 in the first stage of the race."
> flavor="The real starting line is the first corner!" deck="deck1">
>
>I'm trying to use Python's pyXml package to do the parsing, if that
>matters. Anyone have any ideas?

The 'quick fix' would be just to open the file in notepad and change the
offending characters to a regular '...'. Sorry, I must have missed these;
they'll be fixed in the next update.

Thanks!


--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com





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