Hi,
I'm trying to develop some packs for my plugin. I've currently got a set up similar to my example below (but with a greater quantity of cards), where there is a group of cards which will always occur in this pack (cards A - E), and then a smaller group of cards (random cards 1 - 2) of which there are 100 different possible arrangements which can occur.
<pack>
<packtitle>Example Pack</packtitle>
<packimage>Example.png</packimage>
<packformat>normal</packformat>
<packkind>60 Card Starter</packkind>
<packdoubles>yes</packdoubles>
<chance>
<prob>1</prob>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Card A</data></crit></kind>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Card B</data></crit></kind>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Card C</data></crit></kind>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Card D</data></crit></kind>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Card E</data></crit></kind>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Random Card 1</data></crit></kind>
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Random Card 2</data></crit></kind>
</chance>
etc...
</pack>
I understand how to do all this, but what I'm wondering is whether there is some sort of shortcut I can use in xml to create a shorthand for cards A - E, instead of typing all that out for every iteration of random cards 1 - 2 that I have to type out.
Any thoughts?
There currently isn't a shortcut. I should add some more options for things like that.
Copy and paste each line then change the data in the lines to what you need to.
A little tip I use to do repetitive stuff like this is to actually set the text in a spreadsheet. The first column in your example would be
<kind><qty>1</qty><crit><field>Name</field><eval>IS</eval><data>Card
the second column would be the place where you would actually write different stuff, while the third column would be
</data></crit></kind>
Afterwards you can just copy/paste the cells in a .txt editor and then replace the tabulation via automated search and replace functions of the editor.