(Damnit, now I've started browsing the Apple store. Please tell me I do NOT have the money to buy a new laptop. Even a refurbished one. Seriously, I don't.)
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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Jessica - Jun 07, 2011 3:27:17 am PDT #16915 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
le nubian - Jun 07, 2011 3:34:30 am PDT #16916 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
but your husband got a sweet new job...
megan walker - Jun 07, 2011 5:55:15 am PDT #16917 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
but your husband got a sweet new job...
Will no one think of the children?!?
NoiseDesign - Jun 07, 2011 6:52:22 am PDT #16918 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I mean, since there are still plenty of people out there running Leopard who might still want to upgrade to Lion?
Well, they are saying Snow Leopard is a requirement for the upgrade, so they may be going that route. One thing though, the family pricing just went down. The download will allow up to 10 machines to install the upgrade.
Jessica - Jun 07, 2011 7:10:04 am PDT #16919 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well, they are saying Snow Leopard is a requirement for the upgrade, so they may be going that route.
I *really* hope they wouldn't remove the option for people to wipe the old machine and do a clean install of the new OS.
Steph L. - Jun 07, 2011 8:03:23 am PDT #16920 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I have a really, really basic question.
I know nothing of XML files, particularly how to create them. Our Web host (who is THE DEVIL) told us today that we need to send an XML file with all our article files every month. They even gave us the example (code? text? I don't even know what it's called) of what the file needs to say, and what variable changes every issue.
I do not know HOW to make an XML file. I pasted the text (code?) into Word 2004, and there's no save as XML option.
I'm on a Mac, 10.4.11 (Tiger), with Word 2004, Quark XPress 6.5, Acrobat 8.
I have TextEdit that comes with the Mac, and it does have a Save As Word XML option. When I do that, though, and then open it in Word, there's WAY more code (text?) than the original chunk of code (text?).
So...how do I make a frigging XML file?
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2011 8:07:04 am PDT #16921 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This sounds like something that needs to be scripted, and not something you would want to do manually. Seriously.
Steph L. - Jun 07, 2011 8:15:32 am PDT #16922 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Scripted...how? I mean, in a program, right? Or not? Well, everything is in a program, isn't it?
It's just 7 lines (I, uh, changed all the pointy brackets to regular brackets because I know the pointy ones break things):
[?xml version="1.0"?]
[!DOCTYPE HWExpress PUBLIC "-//HIGHWIRE//DTD HighWire Express Marker DTD v1.1.2HW//EN" "marker.dtd"]
[HWExpress type="issue"]
[site]pharmther[/site]
[volume]45[/volume]
[issue]6[/issue]
[/HWExpress]
And the "site," "volume," and "issue" lines are indented; I just didn't know how to do that here.
The only thing that ever will change is the issue number (and in Janary, the volume number).
So...how would I script that? (I don't actually know what scripting is.)
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2011 8:22:43 am PDT #16923 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
When I say "script", I mean, someone writes a small program to automate generating the file, so that you don't have to manually edit the file. But if it's just those seven lines, then it's not a big deal.
First of all, the indentation doesn't matter. Second of all, it's just a text file; you can just edit, and save it as a .TXT file. However, there are a bunch of rules you have to follow to make sure the file is syntactically correct.
Steph L. - Jun 07, 2011 8:31:11 am PDT #16924 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
However, there are a bunch of rules you have to follow to make sure the file is syntactically correct.
Well, I just copied it verbatim from what they sent us. Would what they sent us be syntactically correct?
Second of all, it's just a text file; you can just edit, and save it as a .TXT file.
They want it to be named "foo.xml," though. Which would be...not a .txt file, right?
I hate them so much.