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Newbie Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 3

I play MUME and can't figure out how to use XML with ZMUD. Can anyone help me?

Below is an example of how the output can look like.

<room><name>Felak Baruk
</name><description>All along this passage hang axes. From floor to ceiling, they hang
majestically, testament to times of war and glory long since passed from these
proud people. The axes are of all shapes and sizes, lengths and widths. You
can spot legendary axes, from tales told of heroes long gone, their only link
back to the living world. The axes line the way, separated only by white
stones, carved bowl-like into the wall, emitting a faint glow like muted
candle-light into the hall.
</description>A cup has been set here.
A large torch lies here among the dust.
A well-crafted white fountain is here, water pouring forth from it.
A traffic sign is here, giving directions.
</room>
<prompt>!#></prompt>

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:08 pm

I'm at work so I can't verify.. but I think you simply need to enable MXP in your preferences.

Newbie Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 3

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

No, but unless your MUD specifically enables MXP and tells the client, then ZMud will assume you are operating without MXP. This moreorless means that you have to do all the setup work with elements, entities, and tags.

The tags look simple enough, though, so it shouldn't be much of a problem:

#MXP <!element name FLAG="roomname">
#MXP <!element description FLAG="roomdesc">
#MXP <!element prompt FLAG="prompt">

I think you might have to include a TAG=20+ in there, where 20+ = a unique number greater than or equal to 20, which is where the user/game-defined tags start up. And, if you want to do something visual to the text, you need to put that in single quotes after the tag name:

!element name '<color red>'

Newbie Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 3

I've read all the tutorials but I cannot figure out where to put the above statements. Embarassed

Could someone explain or maybe give me a link to a step-by-step guide.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Just enter them at the command line. The results will appear in the Elements/Entities/Tags tabs of MXP preferences and ZMud will handle them automatically.

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 1

I also have a problem with MUME XML output. I've tried manually adding elements (including TAG numbers) as stated above but ZMUD doesn't seem to recognize them anyway. I tried to highlight "prompt" (#MXP <!element prompt '<color red>' TAG=20 FLAG="prompt"> ) in different colour just to try if it works but nothing happened.

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

MUME's 'XML' mode is NOT MXP. I've been pushing the management since just after the XML mode was introduced for it to be changed to (or depracated in favour of) MXP mode. If you have tried adding these tags as custom elements and they are still not working, it might be the fact that MXP also uses line tagging via MXP escape sequences (like ANSI escape sequences). MUME obviously does not send these escape sequences at the moment. I've not actually tried getting zMUD to recognise the XML tags as MXP tags myself.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Actually, Seb, that's not a problem. Both the mud and the user can create all the tags they want, but the user can basically only create open tags. By default, tags are created in secure mode and you can't override those from the user side. Thus, since the game isn't sending any definitions you need to create them and include the OPEN keyword:

#MXP ~<!element prompt 'stuff' TAG=20 FLAG="prompt" OPEN>

I forgot to mention that, as well as direct the discussion to the MXP spec article found here: http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/mxp.htm#ELEMENT

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

Ah that's it. Thanks MattLofton. I've actually already read the whole MXP spec, but I've not yet read anything about MXP in the zMUD manual (since I didn't think I could use it on a MUD that didn't use MXP), so I wasn't sure if prompt flagged elements would work in OPEN mode.

Anyway, with the OPEN keyword at the end, the prompt XML tag is absorbed, rather than transmitted, by zMUD.

BTW, these are the correct commands to put into the command line to create the right elements (you can view them under Preferences, MXP, Elements) (the TAG=xx is optional - if the FLAG is working properly, it shouldn't be needed):