On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:28 +0100, Matthew Tylee Atkinson wrote: > 1. The XML files need to be edited with a program like Notepad -- i.e. a > text editor. I should have put this in the tutorial and will do after > writing this email.
Incidentally the one thing I've been trying to do is recommend a program you can use to check that your XML file is ``well-formed'' before running it through LDL. Basically, this is checking that it has been typed in properly, with no tags left unclosed and so on. The LDL scripts will report these errors to you when you run the mkmap.bat program on a map (remember to leave off the ".xml" from the end of the filename). However, I was wondering if anyone knows of an accessible text or XML editor for Windows that would warn you as you actually edit the file. Firefox (and thus maybe IE?) can do this but then it's a case of loading yet another external program and that will only slow you down. I'd be interested to know how people get on with the current level of error reporting anyway. If it isn't enough then do please bear in mind that this is a very early test to see if the concept works -- we plan to grow over and above the current XML format and provide multiple ways of specifying maps later on, if we get constructive criticism now :-). If you start from the examples in the tutorial, only make small changes and compile often, you'll be told of any errors pretty quickly after they are made. best regards, -- Matthew Tylee Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
