... Perhaps I am confused, but are you intending on storing the data inside of the objects in XML??? In traditional programming you want to abstract your data...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 20, 2002 1:20 am
... The data inside the elements would of necessity be XML. When loaded into memory, it depends on the program. I've been told that, using JDOM, the XML tree...
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giliath01
Feb 20, 2002 4:08 pm
Great work so far on the prototype dtd btw... I just had one question so far: <race id="race.phb.dwarf" name="Dwarf"> <race-stats...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 20, 2002 5:24 pm
... At this point, I think so. There may be another mechanism (listing the IDs of the classes, in an IDREFS style?), but at 11pm on a Sunday I'm not going to...
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Eric Beaudoin
beaudoer
Feb 21, 2002 6:27 am
Hi everyone, The following lists all the tags used in the .lst files (as of release 2.4.6). The tags that begins with 3 digits are not tags, they represent the...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 21, 2002 6:39 am
... Oh yeah, it'll be helpful. Thanks, Eric. Fewer major elements than I thought. Interesting. Keith -- Keith Davies kjdavies@... Logan: "I don't...
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Eric Beaudoin
beaudoer
Feb 21, 2002 6:47 am
... I think that some tags are defined but not used. Since they never made it to the doc, nobody has used them yet. BTW, the tag list is extracted from the...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 21, 2002 7:19 am
... That'll be no end of useful. As much as possible, we want to convert the files automagically. There will be some manual correction needed, though; even...
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mynex3@...
mynex2k1
Feb 21, 2002 1:12 pm
Such as? What have you got cooking in that wee little brain of yours that would require manual editing of the list files to convert them? (Manual editing of...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 21, 2002 4:48 pm
... Well, ideally we'd be able to convert the whole thing automagically. There are various hacks and kludges present that I'm going to try to plan around......
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Tom Deprez
zifnabbe
Feb 21, 2002 6:07 pm
Hi all, I would like to get some ideas of XML files which will keep all the encounters of a eg module. Attached you can find the one I now use, but I sure...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 21, 2002 7:10 pm
... When we're done, it should be (easily) possible to create this file using XML data from PCGen. This looks like it would be an output target because the...
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mythicrpg
Feb 22, 2002 4:06 pm
... representation ... Ok, I've looked over and actually started using the sample.xml file. (by using, I mean doing test runs parsing the data, displaying a...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 22, 2002 5:48 pm
... Cool, thanks. Note (I've said this a bunch of times, but I can't be too clear on this) that this is not the schema that'll be used for the actual data...
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Eric Beaudoin
beaudoer
Feb 23, 2002 3:13 am
I want to thank everyone who took time to send me comments on the list of tags. I have compiled them all and will make the modifications that apply. I will...
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mynex3@...
mynex2k1
Feb 26, 2002 7:03 pm
This was posted in the Source Forge Data File Tracker # 523016 ... Subject: Dagger (Silvered) cost is incorrect Summary: "my original message" PHB says on page...
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Darel Finkbeiner
mythicrpg
Feb 27, 2002 2:39 pm
Sorry I deleted the previous emails and couldn't reply to the original. I had previously asked about some future structures for save progressions. I like the...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 27, 2002 3:35 pm
... In sample.xml, classes are *hideously* incomplete -- the ones there are really just placeholders. What you've suggested above, using the progressions like...
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mythicrpg
Feb 27, 2002 6:55 pm
... original. ... progressions. ... save-will='prog. ... there are ... considering. ... progression-id="prog.save.good"/> ... their ... that the ... ones is ...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 27, 2002 7:21 pm
... Actually, you seem to have quite a good understanding of what I'm doing with a lot of this. There are a few ways of managing stats and changes to them, but...
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mythicrpg
Feb 28, 2002 4:27 pm
... by ... I don't know about the Java DOM stuff, but Python and C++ both have embeddable XSLT engines (I assume Java does, since XML specs are written with...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 28, 2002 5:13 pm
... We could embed an XSLT engine in the program; I'm not sure we're going to. That would be useful primarily for export, and some loading activities. For...
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giliath01
Feb 28, 2002 5:58 pm
Currently we are working on rewriting the persistence layer of the PcGen program. We are abstracting it out where the objects in core won't know whether the...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 28, 2002 6:08 pm
... So you're keeping the same internal objects, and just changing where they can come from? That makes sense as an interim... it's also been suggested that...
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giliath01
Feb 28, 2002 7:26 pm
... "Interim" is a good word here. In order to not make the presistence layer something that was too much to undertake with everything else I am doing I...
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mythicrpg
Feb 28, 2002 7:44 pm
... where ... LST; ... but ... may) ... has ... I agree with Keith on this.... If you keep the data in XML form internally (which makes sense), you have to...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 28, 2002 7:50 pm
... Okay, that all makes sense. Initially it seemed almost like you were going to try to shoehorn data from the (completed) schema into the existing model....
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Feb 28, 2002 7:54 pm
... Dunno yet. The <race> stuff was off the top of my head, and I haven't really had time to examine it too much. I think <race> will use the normal <bonus>...
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Eric Beaudoin
beaudoer
Mar 1, 2002 5:29 am
Hi everyone, As promise, I've upload the list of tags in use with Release 2.4.7. You can find it here...
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Eric Beaudoin
beaudoer
Mar 1, 2002 5:48 am
... The nice ppl of the XML project should keep Internationalization in mind while designing the schema for the data. Description type of tags should come...
