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FE Devs, Do you have this problem with alien3?
Howard_Casto:
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Displaying isn't the main issue though. The main issue is parsing, some XML parsers are choking on the character.
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Maybe not to you, but I gurantee you, to the mame devs it is. When a documention project doesn't display the proper output, even if it's due to the operating system (dos, command prompt) that's a huge issue. And the mame devs don't seem to care about us lowley fe developers, else they wouldn't have switched to xml in the first place.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 15, 2004, 02:27:40 pm ---Was this a controlled experiment :) are the dats being produced by the same mame in the same manner?
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Yes...Only difference is one way I produced the dat in command prompt (mame -listxml|xml2info > mame.dat), the other way the dat is produced via code using 'CMD.EXE /c mame -listxml|xml2info > mame.dat'.
I'll report back once I figure it out...
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 16, 2004, 03:29:07 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 15, 2004, 02:27:40 pm ---
Displaying isn't the main issue though. The main issue is parsing, some XML parsers are choking on the character.
--- End quote ---
Maybe not to you, but I gurantee you, to the mame devs it is. When a documention project doesn't display the proper output, even if it's due to the operating system (dos, command prompt) that's a huge issue. And the mame devs don't seem to care about us lowley fe developers, else they wouldn't have switched to xml in the first place.
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Not really, they are using hte Western ISO-8859-1 standard, shich is a standard. It does make sense that they would just say since your software is out of date with the standard it isn't their problem, they are using a current standard.
It's kind like when you say you are only going ot support the current version of your software.