Guide: Wraithlord's dominionsKB *major* ver 1.00

[WraithLord]

Oh, writing such a parser was just what I had in mind. I was thinking of using the basic power tools for this the twins sed and awk. It should make writing the parser more feasible.

I admit I'm far from being an HTML expert though, so I might be missing some hidden (for me) difficulties.

I think the best way to get a feel for how difficult the parse is will be to start writing it. Probably if I get stuck I could get help from you Ich.

[DonCorazon]

I just chose to open it in Word and it is pretty easy to read. Nice work WraithLord (600+ pages in my file format) Caramba!

[lch]

Wraithlord, I really think it's far less work and a better end result to redo the whole thing in another format than writing a parser. Some things are easy to replace, for example the URL links, but some things might be needlessly complicated. I'd setup a Wiki for you so that you can use a real Wiki, too. But if you want to write a parser for this, regardless, that's ok.

If you want to use a text-based markup language that's easy to write, easy to read and easy to parse (which e.g. Wikitext is not), then use Perl's Plain Old Documentation: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html
There are already converters for pod to pretty much anything: pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage and a podchecker to check the syntax of your pod files.

[WraithLord]

Very well, I think I'll go for the POD option. I'll do a KB2POD translator and then I'll use the existing converters to produce latex (and PDF) and html.

Don't know how much time it'll take to complete but I'll be on it 'till its ready.

[WraithLord]

Gandalf has graciously agreed to host the document on his server, so it's now also there.

[Wrana]

Thank you! And for editor too - I'm going to try it out...
Just a question: why didn't you place general tips from Wiki before nation-specific ones?

[WraithLord]

Great to hear that, I think if you take the time to learn it you won't regret it.

I've updated the document according to your comment. I'll wait for more possible comments before I upload the updated version.