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Re: Inventory XML Export - Interest?
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lugnet.market.brickshops
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:23:58 GMT
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Yep, Minifigs are the biggie. I already have a little something that takes a
peeron html page and converts it into tab-delimited. It does a good job on the
colors, but the minifigs always have to be hand fixed.
XML would be great (even without the set count multiplication). Can we get a DTD
to go also ?
Ray
In lugnet.market.brickshops, Troy Cefaratti writes:
> Jennifer,
>
> I'm thinking that the desire for this would be extremely great! ;) I'm
> assuming that you would be targetting this feature to users of Brickbay?
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> If this is the case, I have a couple of questions / concerns about how this
> would be accomplished.
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> 1. The color names differ between Brickbay and Peeron. Would the output
> XML use the Brickbay color codes or would it use the peeron color names?
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> 2. There are differences in part numbers between Brickbay and Peeron,
> especially for parts that are not officially in the LDRAW distribution. How
> would this be handled?
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> 3. Minifigs! Peeron currently lists minifigs by their associated parts,
> but Brickbay lists them as whole minifigs. How would this be handled?
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> Currently we use the Peeron inventories as the starting point for a dBase
> program that my brother set up to generate the XML for bulk uploading.
> These are the problems that we have encountered doing so, and I was just
> wondering how they would be overcome.
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> If it could be set up to generate "Brickbay Ready" XML I would be as giddy
> as a school girl. If you could also script it to pull the average pricing
> from Brickbay i'd pay money! :)
>
> Troy
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> "Jennifer L. Boger" <jenn@peeron.com> wrote in message
> news:GqGFwB.Cpw@lugnet.com...
> > Ok, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but I'd like to guage demand • and
> > interest here...
> >
> > Would anyone be interested in www.peeron.com offering XML exports of
> > inventories? Including multiple sets (ie: give me an export of 110 7110s, • and
> > it does the math for you, etc)?
> >
> > Any comments are welcome, thanks :)
> >
> > JLB
> > peeron.com
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