Ruleset Creation Guide and XML Tutorial

**Foen** · February 20th, 2008, 07:25

Folks

I am trying to pull together a ruleset creation guide (complete with walkthrough and final ruleset) and want to concentrate on FG and the ruleset mechanics.

As a result, I'm not keen to include a potted tutorial on XML, but would rather assume the reader has such knowledge. On the other hand, for readers who don't, I'd like to include a cross-reference to a decent XML tutorial elsewhere.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial site to which I can point? A PDF would be even better, as some people like to browse this stuff on a laptop, while disconnected.

I'll post the final guide when its finished, sometime in 2012!

Thanks for the help,

Stuart

jthm0138 · February 20th, 2008, 07:47

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**Astinus** · February 20th, 2008, 21:02

I don't know of one, Foen. I'm one of those who would need one. But I'd just like to add that your project is noble indeed. I will look forward to 2012.

**Griogre** · February 21st, 2008, 01:09

There are a couple of pages on the site which should cover what anyone needs to know about XML for FG.
https://www.bloomington.in.us/~mongi...l/Concepts.htm
https://www.bloomington.in.us/~mongi...l/Examples.htm

The example is over kill though.

**DNH** · February 21st, 2008, 09:20

I learnt much of what I know about XML from the W3Schools website at https://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp. This will be five or six years ago now but the core stuff won't have changed.

**Hamish** · February 21st, 2008, 13:53

I was just about to post the same link here. w3schools is the ultimate website for web-related references.

**Griogre** · February 21st, 2008, 19:46

Of course you probably want to mention FG just uses elements and attributes - no schema or DTD so basically all you really need to know is it is case sensitive and you have to close any element you open.

**Foen** · February 22nd, 2008, 06:20

Although it doesn't use attributes, the text values need to be properly xml-encoded. If editing the db.xml by hand, or creating windowclasses with embedded static text, you still need to use & etc.

Thanks for the links folks, I like the w3schools one in particular (although I'll admit it takes you well beyond the level needed for FG work).

Cheers

Stuart

**Griogre** · February 22nd, 2008, 07:00

Good point on the forbidden text characters like <, ", &, ect.

Hmm FG uses tons of attributes. Those are the xxx="something" after the element name.

Edit: Ack I forgot how hard it is to get XML to show up on this board. I was going to give an example.

**Foen** · February 22nd, 2008, 07:12

Bah! I confused attributes with entities ... but you got my meaning!

Stuart

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