Ok, maybe someone can help me here. I want to make it so that I can view a character with the item icons when I open up the character XML sheets, just so I can see what some of the items look like. Can anyone help me how to do this? I allready DL'd the .zip of the icons.

In this post http://boards.dungeonrunners.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=41223&an=0&page=0#Post41223
it's stated that it's possible to "poll the data to create their own web character sheets." Can anyone tell me what that means and/or how to do it?

Very nice. I look forward to it and thanks again for all the hard work and cool new features you are giving us to use.

The quickest way to set something up would probably be to create a generic XLST [XML Style Sheet] - of course then the data would have to be cached locally and refer to the style sheet; but XLST takes less time to set up than using PHP/CGI to program a dynamic page.

There are alot of good tutorials out there though for interacting with XML data like the character 'feed' though, and you can do some amazing things if you apply yourself

K, I got it working clientside javascript with internet explorer. You'll need to save it locally and enable the scripting via the yellow bar on the top of your browser. Firefox is still having problem loading the external XML on the server but I'm sure there's a fix for it. Save the following files on your desktop with the filenames provided. Load searchchar.html and type the charcter name you want to look up.

On a side note, until we have an xml feed that provides all the characters this is only marginally useful. You'd also probably want to include title and level on the feed so you could do searching based on level.

Better solution would be server-side PHP, but this shows the general idea. The html on it is pretty plain, not a lot of formatting and using tables instead of css, but this shows the basic functionality.

Edited by Demosthenez (12/19/07 11:19 PM)

save the following as searchchar.html

<html>
<head>

<body>
<div>
<form name="charform" action="drcharacter.html" method="get">
Dungeon Runner Character Name
<input type="text" name="charname">
<input type="submit" value="See stats">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Edited by Demosthenez (12/19/07 11:12 PM)

save the following as drcharacter.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- Edited with XML Spy v2007 (http://www.altova.com) -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method='html' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes'/>


<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>

<h1><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Name"/></h1>
<h2>Level &#160;<xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Level"/>,&#160;
<xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Gender"/>&#160;
<xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Title"/></h2>
<h3><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/PVPWins"/>&#160;PvP Wins</h3>

<table>
<tr style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;">
<td>
<h2>Attributes</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>&#160;</td>
<td>Innate</td>
<td>Effective</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Strength:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Strength/Innate"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Strength/Effective"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Agility:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Agility/Innate"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Agility/Effective"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Endurance:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Endurance/Innate"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Endurance/Effective"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Intelligence:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Intellect/Innate"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Attributes/Intellect/Effective"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
&#160;
<td>
<h2>Appearance</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Face</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Appearance/Face"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hair Style:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Appearance/Hair"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hair Color:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Appearance/HairColor"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hair:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Appearance/Hair"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>
<h2>Combat</h2>
<table>
<tr style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;">
<td>
<!-- http://www.dungeonrunners.com/images/icons/scroll_battlePlan.png -->
<h3>Skills</h3>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>&#160;</td>
<td>Skill</td>
<td>Level</td>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="DRCharacter/Skills/Skill">
<tr>
<td><img
src="{concat('http://www.dungeonrunners.com/images/icons/', Icon, '.png')}"
width="32"
height="32"
/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Name"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Level"/></td>

</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</td>
&#160;
<td>
<h3>Weapon</h3>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>&#160;</td>
<td>Primary</td>
<td>Secondary</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Attack Rating:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[1]/AttackRating"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[2]/AttackRating"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Minimum Damage:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[1]/MinDamage"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[2]/MinDamage"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Maximum Damage:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[1]/DamageMax"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[2]/DamageMax"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Average Damage:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select=".5 * (/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[1]/DamageMax +
/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[1]/MinDamage)"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select=".5 * (/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[2]/DamageMax +
/DRCharacter/Combat/Weapon[2]/MinDamage)"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
&#160;
<td>
<h3>Elemental</h3>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>&#160;</td>
<td>Bonus</td>
<td>Resist</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fire:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementBonuses/Fire"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementResistances/Fire"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ice:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementBonuses/Ice"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementResistances/Ice"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poison:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementBonuses/Poison"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementResistances/Poison"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shadow:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementBonuses/Shadow"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementResistances/Shadow"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Divine:</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementBonuses/Divine"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="/DRCharacter/Combat/ElementResistances/Divine"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>



<h2>Equipment</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>&#160;</td>
<td>Skill</td>
<td>Level</td>
<td>Quality</td>
<td>Soulbound</td>
<td>Modifiers</td>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="DRCharacter/Equipment/Item">
<tr>
<td><img
src="{concat('http://www.dungeonrunners.com/images/icons/', Icon, '.png')}"
/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Name"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Level"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Quality"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="SoulBound"/></td>

<td><xsl:for-each select="Mod">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>


</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>


</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

this file won't post on just 1 post I guess a character limit, save the rest of this post and the next one as drcharacter.html

<html>
<head>
<script>
function loadXMLDoc(fname)
{
var xmlDoc;
// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
}
// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation
&& document.implementation.createDocument)
{
xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
}
else
{
alert('Your browser cannot handle this script');
}
xmlDoc.async=false;
xmlDoc.load(fname);
return(xmlDoc);
}

function gup( name )
{
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
//document.write(results);
if( results == null )
return "";
else
return results[1];
}


function displayResult()
{

var charpath = "http://dungeonrunners.com/characters/";
//var charpath = "";
var character = gup('charname');
//document.write(character);
//document.write(charpath + character);
xml=loadXMLDoc(charpath + character);
// if (character == null) {
// }
// else {
// xml=loadXMLDoc("lol");
// }

//xml=loadXMLDoc("lol");
xsl=loadXMLDoc("drcharacter.xsl");

// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
ex=xml.transformNode(xsl);
document.getElementById("example").innerHTML=ex;
}
// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation
&& document.implementation.createDocument)
{
xsltProcessor=new XSLTProcessor();
xsltProcessor.importStylesheet(xsl);
resultDocument = xsltProcessor.transformToFragment(xml,document);
document.getElementById("example").appendChild(resultDocument);
}
document.append("foo");
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="example" onLoad="displayResult()">
<!-- this isn't appearing in ie since nothing is being processed after the xml load -->
<div>
<form name="charform" action="drcharacter.html" method="get">
Dungeon Runner Character Name
<input type="text" name="charname">
<input type="submit" value="See stats">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Intresting, will try it when Im home after school. It looks good so far

Sample snapshot of Anson using scripts posted previously:
http://demosthenez.110mb.com/anson.html

Download-able scripts to view characters from your desktop
Just double click on searchar.html and type the name of the character you want to view. Requires IE6 and you'll need to click the yellow bar to enable scripting.
http://demosthenez.110mb.com/searchchar.html

http://demosthenez.110mb.com/drcharacter.xsl

http://demosthenez.110mb.com/drcharacter.html

Edited by Demosthenez (12/20/07 03:50 AM)

Owh I am doing something wrong, when typing in the name it refreshes and shows nothing then the search option again.

I am having the same problem as you Legendrunner.

Are you using internet explorer 6 and are you clicking the yellow bar at the top to allow blocked content?

1. I get no warning for ActiveX (As thats it if Im correct) or anything else.
2. My internet explorer version is 7.0.5730.11, to be exact.

You have all 3 files in the same directory?