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Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Mume doesn't use MXP but wraps Room info in XML. I don't really know much about either, but for mapping I imagine that would be great, I could stop auto mapping and create rooms by triggers. That would be cleaner and I could forget nodirs and nomaps. Turning this option on makes the game unreadable though and to #sub on so much information seems formidable speed wise. Is there a way for ZMud to internalize those tags like MXP? Or can the auto mapper use them directly? If so where could I learn this?

Thanks

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

There was a description of how to do it not that long ago. Search for ELEMENT. It lets you define a conversion from the tags your mud is using to the known MXP tags, and can be setup with the #MXP command in an onLoad event.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Awesome.

I am looking at ELEMENT in http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/mxp.htm. (how likely an address?) Seems the thing. I will see if I can use them in an onLoad event, as you suggest. Haven't found the thread yet, but this article explains a lot.

:)

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

The answer is that zMUD cannot do it due to the way the XML tags are formatted across lines. However, CMUD should, in theory, be able to handle these due to some additions (some, or possibly all, of which suggested by me) Zugg made. The key is the new MULTILINE option in MXP tags (elements). You may want to read this thread for all the details, background and other info. However, I have not actually tried to make a map configuration based on these new features as yet.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I have gotten this far, but thought I had it:

Example:

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I take it "<tag/>" is the standard XML closing bracket. I don't have that. I am going to just try to get the mud to effect some text first, then if that works I will see about the mapper.

I got the term XML from a dated thread and did not finish reading it as it pertained to alternative mappers. I would prefer to fix my system if I can.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

That went badly.

I tried to make an alias with <!ELEMENT hit '<COLOR red><B>'>

That had no effect on this text:

<hit>You shoot a garden snake's body extremely hard and shatter it.
</hit>You receive your share of experience.

So I looked into system for the unload alias, which I thought might have been a convenience but now thing may not be. I didn't find one so created one and put the ELEMENT there.

and the loss of this poor little bunnies life did not help me either:

<hit>You shoot a cute, bouncing rabbit's body extremely hard and shatter it.
</hit>You receive your share of experience.

However these exits now show with two horizontal rules covering them even after I turned off the XML feature of the mud:

pleasant. However, you realize you could get lost, if not careful.
</description></room><exits>Exits: north, east, south, west.

And I would try to delete the element that isn't working but would much prefer to understand what happened then further mess things up

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I really did read it and made mht of any defining thread and article I could find. I will give it another read and not make assumptions. I thought you had to use secure types for open ones in secure mode or something like that, all new and confusing to me, and that seemed to not be what I had for output. I am glad to hear I missed the point. I felt at a dead end.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

The strike out (I think that is now) didn't show by pasting text, that text with the XML was badly put there, I don't know why I used it, sorry