A Proposal for a Shadowrun XML Standard

realworld

root/rpgcharacter/realworld
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Content: system , generation (type: string) ?, creationdate (type: datetime) , lastmoddate (type: datetime) ?, fileid (type: string) ?, playername (type: string) ?, playeremail (type: string) ?, playerurl (type: string) ?, concept (type: string) ?, note (type: string) *, appdata (type: customdata) *

Description: The realworld tag defines real world data about the character, such as the gaming system it uses, the person who created it and so on. This also include file maintenance issues such as date of modification, etc.

• system defines the role-playing system the character uses.
• generation describes the generation method used to create the character, if the gaming system supports more than one. Generally, a given gaming system will define a specific set of values to use in this tag, but this standard does not enforce them.
• creationdate defines the date the character was created.
• lastmoddate defines the last time the XML file was altered.
• fileid a unique id for this file. One way to accomplish this is use a GUID generator or to have each user define a four character signature code, followed by a name unique to all the characters they themselves have created.
• playername the name of the player who runs the character.
• playeremail the e-mail address of the player who runs the character.
• playerurl the home page of the player who runs the character.
• concept the concept behind the character.
• notes a note about a real-world aspect of the character. There can be zero or more of these in a file.
• appdata a section to allow an application to write customized real-world data about the character. There can be zero or more of these in a file.

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