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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5405820" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, you could certainly parse the Compendium data for power information, etc. You will really not want to provide any way to save it is all. A bunch of it is XML, and the rest is well-formed HTML that is no doubt generated with something like XSLT. I'd look into that and supporting the .dnd4e XML format. With the proper mapping layer (maybe check out Apache XMLBeans) it really isn't all that hard to convert back and forth between in-memory data structures and serialized XML.Existing online apps like iplay4e simply provide an alternate front end to Compendium content and use a .dnd4e file to display the Compendium content. As long as your program doesn't save any of that content to the hard drive you're in no danger of getting a C&amp;D any more than iplay4e is. Admittedly it would be nice to be able to run the app off of the hard drive. If it can just READ but not write data files then you're probably still OK.Of course you might all want to check out the CBLoader, which lets you merge custom/new content into the existing CB. From what I hear people have pretty much reproduced about 90% of the new material in it and you can add your own custom stuff within reason. You're stuck within the limits of what CB can do, but it is still a very nice program and if you still have it lying around that would be a good choice to consider.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5405820, member: 82106"] Well, you could certainly parse the Compendium data for power information, etc. You will really not want to provide any way to save it is all. A bunch of it is XML, and the rest is well-formed HTML that is no doubt generated with something like XSLT. I'd look into that and supporting the .dnd4e XML format. With the proper mapping layer (maybe check out Apache XMLBeans) it really isn't all that hard to convert back and forth between in-memory data structures and serialized XML. Existing online apps like iplay4e simply provide an alternate front end to Compendium content and use a .dnd4e file to display the Compendium content. As long as your program doesn't save any of that content to the hard drive you're in no danger of getting a C&D any more than iplay4e is. Admittedly it would be nice to be able to run the app off of the hard drive. If it can just READ but not write data files then you're probably still OK. Of course you might all want to check out the CBLoader, which lets you merge custom/new content into the existing CB. From what I hear people have pretty much reproduced about 90% of the new material in it and you can add your own custom stuff within reason. You're stuck within the limits of what CB can do, but it is still a very nice program and if you still have it lying around that would be a good choice to consider. [/QUOTE]

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