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<blockquote data-quote="banana" data-source="post: 4303711" data-attributes="member: 69051">Four EeWhen developing a file format, it's always useful to have a reference implementation, so I've converted a character editor I was working on to use this schema. Attached (&quot;4e.zip&quot;) is a Mac OS X application which can open/edit/save character &quot;.sheet&quot; files (it also works on &quot;.xml&quot;, but that might not be a good idea in the long term) with a GUI interface.It's very alpha-quality - it doesn't do a lot of things yet (powers, feats, skills, equipment!) and needs other improvements, but it works.Here are some points that came up about the XML format while working on it:- Ability scores don't include racial bonuses, right?- I think that the root &lt;character&gt; element should be including the schema definition:&lt;character xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=&quot;4eCharacter.xsd&quot;&gt;Currently, my editor will load sheets that don't include it but won't be able to validate them against the schema for correctness.- Should there be maxOccurs=&quot;1&quot; on the description elements? Does XSD automatically infer that?- Why is &lt;wealth&gt; separate to &lt;equipment&gt;? &lt;valuable&gt; could be in the &lt;equipment&gt; section along with &lt;item&gt;. Also, &lt;valuable&gt; is kind of a clunky name.- I had to change some capitalisation in the schema, because a lot of elements were referenced in thisWay but then defined in ThisWay. I had to change AbilityScores, Power, ExtraInfo, and a bunch of others. I've attached my edited schema - the capitalisation is the only change over what's in ninjeff's latest zip.Here are some screenshots of opening the KotS character xml files:<img src="http://forthehor.de/files/4e1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://forthehor.de/files/4e2.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://forthehor.de/files/4e3.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The XML box at the bottom is mostly there to let me debug stuff, and it's actually generated from the model in memory rather than just being a copy of the file.And here's a character created from scratch:<img src="http://forthehor.de/files/4e4.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I've attached that file as &quot;Underpowered.sheet&quot;.Finally, I've also attached the source code for reference purposes. I'm thinking about making it open source under the GP, but for the moment I want to get it into a more working state.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="banana, post: 4303711, member: 69051"] [b]Four Ee[/b] When developing a file format, it's always useful to have a reference implementation, so I've converted a character editor I was working on to use this schema. Attached ("4e.zip") is a Mac OS X application which can open/edit/save character ".sheet" files (it also works on ".xml", but that might not be a good idea in the long term) with a GUI interface. It's very alpha-quality - it doesn't do a lot of things yet (powers, feats, skills, equipment!) and needs other improvements, but it works. Here are some points that came up about the XML format while working on it: - Ability scores don't include racial bonuses, right? - I think that the root <character> element should be including the schema definition: <character xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="4eCharacter.xsd"> Currently, my editor will load sheets that don't include it but won't be able to validate them against the schema for correctness. - Should there be maxOccurs="1" on the description elements? Does XSD automatically infer that? - Why is <wealth> separate to <equipment>? <valuable> could be in the <equipment> section along with <item>. Also, <valuable> is kind of a clunky name. - I had to change some capitalisation in the schema, because a lot of elements were referenced in thisWay but then defined in ThisWay. I had to change AbilityScores, Power, ExtraInfo, and a bunch of others. I've attached my edited schema - the capitalisation is the only change over what's in ninjeff's latest zip. Here are some screenshots of opening the KotS character xml files: [img]http://forthehor.de/files/4e1.png[/img][img]http://forthehor.de/files/4e2.png[/img][img]http://forthehor.de/files/4e3.png[/img] The XML box at the bottom is mostly there to let me debug stuff, and it's actually generated from the model in memory rather than just being a copy of the file. And here's a character created from scratch: [img]http://forthehor.de/files/4e4.png[/img] I've attached that file as "Underpowered.sheet". Finally, I've also attached the source code for reference purposes. I'm thinking about making it open source under the GP, but for the moment I want to get it into a more working state. [/QUOTE]

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