- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Since you are the webmaster, I figured I would ask you this. Im sure you know of the many stat tracking sites that are out there and know that most of them use the RSS as the basis of tracking stats. Well, some people like to know more than what is already provided, such as how many medals they get in a game. Well, there are some services out there that provide this, but it is very hard to write parsers that can pick out this information from the actual page source code (which is what we currently have to do). So, my question is, if its too much trouble to include more in the RSS feeds, could you at least add tags to each of the numbers.
Ex- When ever you list the actual number of medals, lets say Bonecracker medals, instead of just having
6 <img bonecracker.gif>
You could put:
<bonecracker>6</bonecracker> <img bonecracker.gif>
By doing this, you would give the parsers something easy to look for and make them much more efficient. I am currently planning writing a personal stat tracker in the form of a program that will gather stats and save them inro a file on the users computer, and Im hoping to include medal and accuracy tracking, but parsing that information from the webpage source is extremely inefficient, and if you guys were to ever change anything about the way you display the pages, it could call for a complete program rewrite.
eKKo
[Edited on 6/11/2005]