MTG Salvation

I noticed that when I export a database to XML, the generated file will have information for all of the sets ever printed. Is there a way to limit the set information to only sets which have cards currently in the database? And if there isn't a way, could this be a new feature in a future release?

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I noticed that when I export a database to XML, the generated file will have information for all of the sets ever printed. Is there a way to limit the set information to only sets which have cards currently in the database? And if there isn't a way, could this be a new feature in a future release?

Done!
I will release the next version soon.

As Gaspare mentioned, we're going to go back to numbering the card images by alphabetical order instead of collector number order (since the slightlymagic hi-res scans have the card name as their file name and it's a lot of work to rename them to collector number), so the filename paths in the rels export should be numbered based on card name.

Also, I wanted to clarify my earlier message about special characters. OCTGN/XML indeed supports special characters like Æ or ö, so if you've added replacement scripts to convert them to basic letters, then we don't need that anymore. The ONLY replacements that need to occur are " for double quotations, & for & symbols, and for line breaks.

Also, for the flip cards from Kamigawa, they can be treated the same way as the split cards.

Will the next version include support for M12?
Using v3.1 there is a bug when parsing Forest in M12 that prevents the rest of the cards from being parsed.

Thanks.

Thanks chadukah! I love it when a dev listens to users

Some other things I've noticed:

Cards which have the 1/2 colorless mana symbol like Cheap Ass do not have the symbol show up in text. This problem is the same on magiccards.info and gatherer, so it's probably beyond your control.

I think there is bug with the tags for italics open and close. Example, from M12 using default settings, from Flashfreeze:

#_"Is cold merely the absence of heat, or a force unto itself? Would a display of its power help you decide?"_#£_#—Zubarek, Icewinder Magus_#

After the line break, instead of having an open and a close, it has two close tags. Could you please investigate this?

Also, would it be possible to have a function which splits the split cards (Fire // Ice) and flip cards (Nezumi Graverobber) into two separate cards?

Keep up the good work!

It's marked in red because the set code is missing. I can edit the set code table.

Version 3.2 has been released. Minor bugs fixed and minor addings in the version, because of vacation. Feel free to suggest options etc.

@chaudakh
Update language file!
http://www.mediafire.com/?340q3w6vhz6c6sd

Updated !!
Thank you very much !

Taking advantage of what I'm posting here. Did you schedule some thing about that feature that I mentioned? (export to NetDraft)

yep, I don't forget it, but I would need some more time to implement it and to test it. I'm currently back from vacation, and I released today the work I did before holidays...

NetDraft exportation will be available soon. I will PM you if I need more information about NetDraft format.

Great!
If you need information, I am available.

Thank you for always hear everyone's opinion and implement them whenever possible!

Congratulations!

I'm at work right now and can't check, but did you get rid of the XML filtering I mentioned earlier for stuff like the AE character? I know we asked a while back to add a filter to remove these special characters, however we did some testing and all those special characters are indeed supported by XML and octgn, so the only things that need to be specifically filtered are the & symbol, quotations and line breaks.

Also, I found a bug last night... cards with single colored mana costs (such as Ancestral Recall) do not show its mana symbol in the "Cost" column. Their costs are empty, but their converted mana costs still show up as 1. Colorless 1 mana cards show their symbols as normal, though.

Can you provide a generated class that I can deserialize the XML into? I've tried a variety of auto-generated ones and I'm not getting it to work Anybody else using C#?
Edit: I think i got it working If anybody needs it, lemme know

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Nope, but I can of course add one if required.
The schema of the the generated xml is pretty simple, anyway.

Thanks for fixing the Set export for XML. However, I still see the bug about the italics markers on two lines.

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I think there is bug with the tags for italics open and close. Example, from M12 using default settings, from Flashfreeze:

#_"Is cold merely the absence of heat, or a force unto itself? Would a display of its power help you decide?"_#£_#—Zubarek, Icewinder Magus_#

After the line break, instead of having an open and a close, it has two close tags.

This makes using and as the tags pretty impossible. Could you please look into this for v3.3?

Also, flip cards like Nezumi Graverobber are getting assigned the power and toughness of their flipped versions. Nezumi Graverobber should be a 2/1, but it is extracted as a 4/2, like Nighteyes the Desecrator.

Thanks gelakinetic for your feedback.

Here is the html code from the gatherer for flavor text of [M12] Flashfreeze:

"Is cold merely the absence of heat, or a force unto itself? Would a display of its power help you decide?"

—Zubarek, Icewinder Magus

You may see that the italic markers are bugged too. The bug comes from the gatherer itself. I will add a patch to replace "

bug in link to download

EDIT
It was my computer ... sorry!

Well I'll be, Gatherer is a little broken! Wizards is letting us down. Thanks for the update, I'll test it later.

This isn't the first time Gatherer has made me sad. Cheap Ass is missing the glyph for 1/2 mana in the text box. That isn't fixable, save for patching each UNH card with the glyph manually.

And if you were curious, I am using Gatherer Extractor to create the database for searching in my open source Android app (http://code.google.com/p/mtg-familiar/). It's still very rough around the edges, but it works (mostly).

Been using your utility for a couple of days. My first download, it didn't grab prices because the checkbox wasn't checked. Is there a way to download only prices on an already existing database without having to download the cards again? This would be handy for keeping prices up-to-date on a semi-regular basis.

Thanks!

Great!!!

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Nice utility! I think I found some bugs though.

Is it just me, or are some casting costs missing in the xml when exporting to OCTGN 2? For instance, when I import invasion cards from gatherer, the list on gatherer extractor seems correct. However, once I import it to OCTGN2 xml format, the xml file itself seems to be missing some casting costs. For invasion in particular, alabaster leech, holy day, and orim's touch always seem to be missing its casting cost. There are more cards, and this isn't restricted to invasion. I've tried importing revised, and I seem to have the same issues with some cards missing its casting cost.

fixed! The problem was for single {W}, {U}, {G}, {R} or {G} mana costs.

I'll update the .exe

Great, thanks!

Also, is the variation left out of the OCTGN export on purpose? I see that this property is available in the regular xml export, but not in the OCTGN export.