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oldtimer · 06-09-2005, 11:13 AM

I'm sure everyone is familiar here w/ the ability to save PMs in 3 formats: XML, CSV, Text. I always choose XML b/c I hate CSV b/c it needs MS Excel and for that reason alone I couldn't imagine how the PMs would even display properly or be user-friendly to my eyes. And plain text I hate for the obvious reasons, that it's a little bit harder to read much less you need to focus harder if you don't want to miss certain details and bits of words while reading a message. Plain text puts a horrible strain on my eyes, anyone's eyes, when it comes in mass or a great clump. Might as well open up an executable in wordpard (A fairly large one over 2MB) and then have a gander around for "the needle in the haystack".

But anyway, I have a XML for my PMs and somehow found a utility to read them called priv_msgs.xsl accompanied by a file called private_message_viewer.hta. All I did was put my XML file in a folder with these two files and fire up priv_msgs.xsl. It does a great job of bringing up the PMs but they look as if I were in "View Source" hunting down code. What I'm meaning to say is the XML is not styled in anyway, and I was wondering if I could copy a replica environment of TFP's [CSS] Private Message section for local use and read my PMs in a user-friendly way. Only problem is I don't know the first thing about XML much less pulling a CSS from TFP. I've tried saving a copy of one of TFP's pages to the disk then seeing if a CSS was created in the folder corresponding with the HTML I saved, but no CSS was in there. Just a few javascripts and pics to fix opacity.

Also, I've found this code in a tutorial to Styling XML's:

Code:

<LINK href="mystyle.css" rel="style sheet" type="text/css">
<?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" type="text/css"?>

<LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
<?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" type="text/css"?>

<LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Medium" rel="alternate stylesheet"
type="text/css">
<?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" href="mystyle.css" title="Medium"
type="text/css"?>

I would guess one line is needed and the others are just different variations you could use. Do one of these lines need to be inserted in the header of the XML? Assuming I ever find the proper CSS I'm wanting to use.

I'm trying to do this using the styles Hardwired and Dark Cloud.

06-09-2005, 11:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
oldtimer Addict	Extracting TFP CSS (Hardwired) for local use I'm sure everyone is familiar here w/ the ability to save PMs in 3 formats: XML, CSV, Text. I always choose XML b/c I hate CSV b/c it needs MS Excel and for that reason alone I couldn't imagine how the PMs would even display properly or be user-friendly to my eyes. And plain text I hate for the obvious reasons, that it's a little bit harder to read much less you need to focus harder if you don't want to miss certain details and bits of words while reading a message. Plain text puts a horrible strain on my eyes, anyone's eyes, when it comes in mass or a great clump. Might as well open up an executable in wordpard (A fairly large one over 2MB) and then have a gander around for "the needle in the haystack". But anyway, I have a XML for my PMs and somehow found a utility to read them called priv_msgs.xsl accompanied by a file called private_message_viewer.hta. All I did was put my XML file in a folder with these two files and fire up priv_msgs.xsl. It does a great job of bringing up the PMs but they look as if I were in "View Source" hunting down code. What I'm meaning to say is the XML is not styled in anyway, and I was wondering if I could copy a replica environment of TFP's [CSS] Private Message section for local use and read my PMs in a user-friendly way. Only problem is I don't know the first thing about XML much less pulling a CSS from TFP. I've tried saving a copy of one of TFP's pages to the disk then seeing if a CSS was created in the folder corresponding with the HTML I saved, but no CSS was in there. Just a few javascripts and pics to fix opacity. Also, I've found this code in a tutorial to Styling XML's: Code: <LINK href="mystyle.css" rel="style sheet" type="text/css"> <?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" type="text/css"?> <LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" type="text/css"?> <LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Medium" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css"> <?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" href="mystyle.css" title="Medium" type="text/css"?> I would guess one line is needed and the others are just different variations you could use. Do one of these lines need to be inserted in the header of the XML? Assuming I ever find the proper CSS I'm wanting to use. I'm trying to do this using the styles Hardwired and Dark Cloud. __________________ Slowly but surely getting over the loss of TFP v. 3.0. Where the hell am I?.... Showering once a month does not make you a better person. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr. Last edited by oldtimer; 06-09-2005 at 12:05 PM..