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Newbie Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Marietta, MS

Hi guys,

I just recently started playing MUDs again and I was wondering if there was a way to pull the XML map from the IRE websites (http://www.imperian.com/maps/map.xml ) into the mapper somehow so I could have an up to date map without having to manually walk through all the rooms? I did a search and didn't see anything but I didn't see any harm in asking. I know mudlet downloads and parses the information into it's client now so I was hoping CMUD did the same.

Thanks

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

You would have to write a script, which involves external tinkering with the mapdb since not everything in there is exposed via the mapping commands/functions (not even with the extended zmapper com object). Such external tinkering is a VERY bad idea since there's no safety checks and you're bypassing all the synchronization code that keeps the map up-to-date in memory.

That said, the parsing part would be rather simple and straightforward. You could read each line in one at a time via %read(), and then check via %match() to figure out which line it was and what to do with it. I notice that the environments definitions are AFTER the use in the room tags, so you will need to delay insertion until after those are read in.