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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5097735" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well.... There is a technical solution. You get a program that downloads ALL the XML data from the Compendium. Now you have the xmlid values for all the different things that get referenced in the .dnd4e XML. At that point you can use some clever XSLT and merge that data into your sheet. </p><p></p><p>This won't break the GSL as long as you just supply the downloader, the XSLT, and whatever else the program needs to build the final sheet. It SHOULD work and will be 'legal'. WotC has set up DDI such that you can use tools like this and there is a power card maker tool around that does pretty much the same thing. Its script (perl) is pretty smart about only downloading deltas off the Compendium as well, so its actually not that bad. </p><p></p><p>I have a copy of the script. Haven't really looked at it much, but it looks fairly modular and I think I can reuse the "get stuff from DDI" part (they also have some weird Windows-only perl GUI built into the whole thing, so some surgery is required). Anyway I'll look through the code and see what I can come up with. I really want to do some other stuff like Maptool tokens with .dnd4e files anyway, so it could help all of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5097735, member: 82106"] Well.... There is a technical solution. You get a program that downloads ALL the XML data from the Compendium. Now you have the xmlid values for all the different things that get referenced in the .dnd4e XML. At that point you can use some clever XSLT and merge that data into your sheet. This won't break the GSL as long as you just supply the downloader, the XSLT, and whatever else the program needs to build the final sheet. It SHOULD work and will be 'legal'. WotC has set up DDI such that you can use tools like this and there is a power card maker tool around that does pretty much the same thing. Its script (perl) is pretty smart about only downloading deltas off the Compendium as well, so its actually not that bad. I have a copy of the script. Haven't really looked at it much, but it looks fairly modular and I think I can reuse the "get stuff from DDI" part (they also have some weird Windows-only perl GUI built into the whole thing, so some surgery is required). Anyway I'll look through the code and see what I can come up with. I really want to do some other stuff like Maptool tokens with .dnd4e files anyway, so it could help all of us. [/QUOTE]
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