New HoF brain storm

[Psycho]

I tried writing a parser in Ruby some time ago to parse the thread and get the HoF statistics, but it proved to be not so easy. The problem is that you don't have a standard format for posts. Also some player names are written in two or three different variants - with and without capital letters, with and without spaces, etc. You'll probably have to enter a lot of data manually.

And if you're doing it, well then XML is probably the best way. You can easily write an XSLT to transform it to a human readable html file for example.

[WraithLord]

Some old posts are missing almost all information so it's mandatory to extract that info from the game thread.

However you see it there's just no way to avoid manually building the DB. If I get help in this it will cut the time to completion by half. Otherwise my plan is to complete the report gen. engine and then get to manually feeding the DB. It's not that bad, mind you, most of the posts are compatible with my parser (just add [ and ] lines with simple awk/sed script or by hand), so it's down to copy/paste.