Re: [Omd-dev] tuning of Card schema

[Hogan L. <Ho...@Ne...>]

At 01:47 PM 8/24/01, you wrote:

>--- Hogan Long <Ho...@Ne...> wrote:
> > Anything I don't comment on was fine...
> > 
> > 1) caps vers non caps...
> > (And changes because of some xml files you found)
> > 
> > ...
>
>can you point me to a "full bundle" of xml files?  i only found
>prophecy, invasion, and apocalypse.
>
>i agree with your stance about standards, but the full set that i
>had was perfectly consistent, but disagreed with the schema.
>
>so, here's what i think is "correct" for the schema:
>     - "Uncommon" instead of "U"
>     - "White" instead of "white", for color
>  
>differences between neturalground omd files and the schema:
>
>of the three xml files i just got from the front page of
>neutralground.net (ex.pr.xml, ex.in.xml, ex.ap.xml),
>only ex.ap.xml uses the correct rarity.  the other two
>use single-letters.  

ex.ap.xml was the first one written near or after when I
wrote the schema.

I've only done 4 xml expansion files - I started the project
with the creation of the prophecy one - then I wrote all
the online stuff about xml and OMD.


>ex.ap.xml uses "Multi" for a color.  do you want to add
>that?
>
>there are a lot of split-card colors (e.g., "Red/Blue")
>in ex.ap.xml and ex.in.xml.  do you want to add all
>combinations, or try something like:
>     <color>Red</color>
>     <color>Blue</color>

This would be better for gold cards.

Split cards are hell.

The best solution I can come up with right now is

<Card>
         <Split>
                 <Card>
                 .....
                 </Card>
                 <Card>
                 ......
                 </Card>
         </Split>
</Card>

But I am willing to hear all ideas.





>ex.ap.xml uses "Land" and "Artifact" as colors.  should
>we add them?

Probably not... they are not colors after all... just made
my scripting (xslt) a lot easier :)


>ex.in.xml has a number of empty colors:
>     <color></color>
>(this is used, for example, on cards where you 
>can choose the color as it comes into play).  should
>this be "Colorless"?
>
>or, since colors are getting somewhat messy,
>maybe we should not enumerate them right now?


I'm just not sure... like I said I'm really busy right now
but let me know what you think will be best and I will
take the time to decide and make the files on NGO 
correct.

Two things:

1) if you want to see the xmlst files I use to create the txt
and html files for the website, just ask.  (This goes for anyone
on this mailing list.

2) if you have an expansion file you want me to make "official"
please email it to me... I will check it and post it.

It is very important that all card text is re-worded as much as
possible.  This makes the file public domain as op. to being
copyrighted by WOTC.

For the expansion files on NGO, I've re-written every card.
While this is a pain - and one of the reasons I'm not quick to
make more of the "past" sets - it is just something that has
to be done for OMD to stay open-source.

Hogan