RASSILON, OMEGA, and that OTHER Guy

[Curufea]

An invaluable compilation of the Who universe based on all media sources (TV, Book, Audio etc).

Includes colour coding of where the authorities are used.

meshyfish.com/~roo/index.html

[Escher]

meshyfish.com/~roo/docwho2.html

Some of that history seems a bit far-fetched and odd - is that really authoritative material?

[Curufea]

Depends what you regard as authority. If you want TV only - just use the red text.

[Marnal]

That's my site!
Actually, the whole thing started as my own personal notes for the FASA RPG.

As indicated the color coding of the font tells you the source of the info. So you can choose your level of canon and then just read those colors.
Red for TV show
Orange for novels and licensed audios
Etc…

If anyone has any questions (or spots any errors) I'll be glad to help.

My other site is the TARDIS Technical Index at
www.whoniverse.org/tardis/tardissitemap.php

It should provide nigh-endless info on the TARDIS for any gaming group.
(note: the color coding follows different rules here so check the key on the right)

- Marnal Gate

"I was told by the producer that the
guiding principle was to make the
scripts complex enough to keep the
Kids interested and simple enough for
the Adults to understand!"
-Douglas Adams on writing Doctor Who

For Everything about the TARDIS check out
www.whoniverse.net/tardis/

For all things Gallifreyan check out
meshyfish.com/~roo/index.html
roo.scificities.com/

[Curufea]

Actually, I've come across a few spelling errors and the HTML really needs a lot of work on it (mostly the span tags with colours inside font tags with colours, especially when one or more of these is empty)

I've been wondering if it might actually be better in XML as you could more easily do site-wide changes to formats. Although you could do that with CSS, but CSS doesn't handle formatting of layouts in as customised a manner as XSL does for XML. Plus in XML you can use tags that have meaning.

Plus, have a Karma - I've found your site a great reference on many occasions.

[Marnal]

The spelling is awful (and the tenses are all over the place). The problem is when I read it my brain just fills in the missing words and letters instead of showing me what's really there. And proof readers are few and far between.

As for the other stuff - I just put the whole thing together using Netscape Composer and a 10 minute tutorial from a friend back in 1998. That's why its riddled with faults, I have no idea how to do html stuff (just like the Doctor as it turns out).

That's why the TARDIS Tech Index is assembled and proof read by Stephen Grey at Whoniverse. I wanted that material to look nice!

I lurk at the Faction Paradox forum BTW - nice to yak at you.

-Marnal

[Curufea]

I'm a bit more judgemental and less PC over on the Faction forums (if/when I post).

I would like to edit your pages and fix them up. It is a big job though so would take some time. The good news is that the XML standards are part of all browsers now so there wouldn't be a problem there. A good example of what can be done are the character sheets I put together here-
www.curufea.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=DWsheets

For example Leela's character sheet shows this in your browser-
www.curufea.com/Wikka/uploads/DWsheets/leela.xml

But consist of this information-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="drwho.xsl"?>
<character>
<name> Leela </name>
<creator> sevateem </creator>
<image>h ttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Leela.jpg<side>left</side></image>
<attributes>

<awareness> 4 </awareness>
<coordination> 4 </coordination>
<ingenuity> 3 </ingenuity>
<presence> 3 </presence>
<resolve> 3 </resolve>

<strength> 3 </strength>
</attributes>
<skills>
<athletics> 3 </athletics>
<convince> 0 </convince>
<craft> 0 </craft>

<fighting> 4 <aoe> Knife </aoe>
</fighting>
<knowledge> 0 </knowledge>
<marksman> 4 <aoe> Throwing Knife </aoe>

</marksman>
<medicine> 1 </medicine>
<science> 0 </science>
<subterfuge> 3 </subterfuge>
<survival> 3 <aoe> Wilderness </aoe>

</survival>
<technology> 0 </technology>
<transport> 0 </transport>
</skills>

<trait>
<name> Attractive </name>

<level> Minor </level>
</trait>
<trait>
<name> Brave </name>
<level> Minor </level>
</trait>

<trait>
<name> Distinctive </name>
<level> Minor </level>
<badtrait> TRUE </badtrait>
</trait>
<trait>

<name> Keen </name>
<level> Major </level>
</trait>
<trait>
<name> Tough </name>
<level> Minor </level>

</trait>

<goal> To explore the universe/learn about science. </goal>
<equipment>
<p>Carries a knife (+2 damage), crossbow & Janis thorn (L [4/L/L]).</p>
</equipment>
<techlevel> Survivor of the Mordee Expedition in the far future/TL 2 </techlevel>

</character>


All the tables are done in the style sheet. You can see immediately the readability is greatly improved for when you edit a page as text - or if anyone looks at the source of the page. You only see the relevant information, not the formatting of it.

[Marnal]

Well I certainly wouldn't mind the help.

Drop me an email at
[e-mail]
and we can work out the details.

-Marnal Gate

[The Porter]

Jan 1, 2010 2:48:22 GMT Curufea said:

A good example of what can be done are the character sheets I put together here-
www.curufea.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=DWsheets

The rendered page may not be terribly sexy, but that is definitely some sexy XML. Good work!

[Curufea]

Jan 3, 2010 14:38:04 GMT The Porter said:

Jan 1, 2010 2:48:22 GMT Curufea said:

A good example of what can be done are the character sheets I put together here-
www.curufea.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=DWsheets

The rendered page may not be terribly sexy, but that is definitely some sexy XML. Good work!

Wait until you see the version of Brian Swift's "Rassilon, Omega and the Other guy" website I've been working on. CSS menus, modular XML pages that can be combined into larger pages.

[Curufea]

Update-

Home subpages and Time Lord -> Gallifrey subpages have now been put up, and there is now an autogenerated table of contents and mouseover text.

I've not corrected any spelling or grammar yet (and probably won't until all the content is up).

You can find the work in progress here-

www.curufea.com/rassilon/summary.xml

Also - I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has knowledge of search engines and indexing. I don't really want to build one from scratch.

[fugazi32]

Jan 21, 2010 19:41:01 GMT Curufea said:

You can find the work in progress here-

www.curufea.com/rassilon/summary.xml

Looking good!

[Curufea]

Now all converted except for the appendix page on Gallifreyan presidents - not sure how to do the three columns yet.
Next comes the spellchecking and the making sure the source attribution is the same between the old html site and the new XML version.

With XML the search-ability of data pretty much has no bounds - so a keyword search is first. But more labour intensive will be the labelling of the data according to what it is - people, places, events etc. All these things are possible and once tagged, can be searched for exclusively.
www.curufea.com/rassilon

[drfan666]

Hello. I'm new here. (First day acturally)I found this site years ago and enhoued it. Have youever considered amking a PDF of it?

[Marnal]

Actually I have a major update [50% new material] of the site ready to roll out. What's holding me back is I'm considering either trying to get it published or turning it into a PDF.

PM me your email address if you want a sneak peak.

[Marnal]

Working on an other big update. There won't be quite as much new content, but the new format is VASTLY more eye catching and will be much easier to use [guess who now knows more HTML then the Doctor does? THIS GUY!]