Is there a tag/attribute reference (or even a DTD) for WA5 skins?

headrift · 21st November 2003, 07:07

I'm trying to get into XML skinning (again), and am having a similar problem to what I ran into with making a skin for Trillian... I can't find a good reference. Tutorials abound, but they tend to only give you a little part of what tags and attributes are availible for use. I can sling some mean markup, but only if I know what the parser will recognize, and what it will do with what it does recognize. I've checked NSDN, and unless I'm blind (there's a good chance of that), there isn't one there. I've also run a search here for 'reference' and 'DTD', no hits.

The tutorials I've read would be good for someone new to XML, but I'd be able to pick this up a lot faster if I didn't have to slog through all the intro stuff, and could get my hands on something that said "Tag X needs to be in an A tag, and Winamp will do this with it. Tag X has Xa, Xb, and Xc attributes, which control this, that, and some other thing. Tag X does not accept child tags. Tag Y...", and so on.

So yeah, I'm looking for a DTD (or something like it), and can't find one anywhere in the Winamp directory. Trillian has a DTD, but it seems to almost totally ignore it, making it nearly useless, so I guess it could be worse.

So, can anybody hook me up? If not, at least help me out, and post whatever wisdom you have on the topic.

</whine>

eh?one · 21st November 2003, 22:29

winamp: no dtd, and no god reference of all tags either

but frisbeemonkey's tutorial is a life-saver

trillian: actually, trillian relies very heavily on the dtd... no reference for it either and even worse, no tutorial. u could try looking at the skinning tutorials chatlogs (or even joining in on the next one)

hope i helped a little bit

headrift · 22nd November 2003, 05:41

Thanks for confirming my fears, at least.

Not much else to do but find all the tutorials I can, boil them down, and start building my own reference. I'll check out frisbeemonkey's tutorial first.

If you know anything (tags, attributes, etc.) that's not in a tutorial somewhere, please drop it in here.

Clarification about Trillian and DTDs: Yeah, Trillian does use DTD files all over the place, but really only for entity declarations... same basic thing as WA's <include/> tag, different syntax. What it's useless for is a declaration of the tag structure. This being WA's skin forum, and not Trilly's skin forum, I'll stfu about it already.

21st November 2003, 07:07	#1
headrift Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 3	Is there a tag/attribute reference (or even a DTD) for WA5 skins? I'm trying to get into XML skinning (again), and am having a similar problem to what I ran into with making a skin for Trillian... I can't find a good reference. Tutorials abound, but they tend to only give you a little part of what tags and attributes are availible for use. I can sling some mean markup, but only if I know what the parser will recognize, and what it will do with what it does recognize. I've checked NSDN, and unless I'm blind (there's a good chance of that), there isn't one there. I've also run a search here for 'reference' and 'DTD', no hits. The tutorials I've read would be good for someone new to XML, but I'd be able to pick this up a lot faster if I didn't have to slog through all the intro stuff, and could get my hands on something that said "Tag X needs to be in an A tag, and Winamp will do this with it. Tag X has Xa, Xb, and Xc attributes, which control this, that, and some other thing. Tag X does not accept child tags. Tag Y...", and so on. So yeah, I'm looking for a DTD (or something like it), and can't find one anywhere in the Winamp directory. Trillian has a DTD, but it seems to almost totally ignore it, making it nearly useless, so I guess it could be worse. So, can anybody hook me up? If not, at least help me out, and post whatever wisdom you have on the topic. </whine>

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21st November 2003, 22:29	#2
eh?one Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: canada, eh? Posts: 296	winamp: no dtd, and no god reference of all tags either but frisbeemonkey's tutorial is a life-saver trillian: actually, trillian relies very heavily on the dtd... no reference for it either and even worse, no tutorial. u could try looking at the skinning tutorials chatlogs (or even joining in on the next one) hope i helped a little bit

22nd November 2003, 05:41	#3
headrift Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 3	Thanks for confirming my fears, at least. Not much else to do but find all the tutorials I can, boil them down, and start building my own reference. I'll check out frisbeemonkey's tutorial first. If you know anything (tags, attributes, etc.) that's not in a tutorial somewhere, please drop it in here. Clarification about Trillian and DTDs: Yeah, Trillian does use DTD files all over the place, but really only for entity declarations... same basic thing as WA's <include/> tag, different syntax. What it's useless for is a declaration of the tag structure. This being WA's skin forum, and not Trilly's skin forum, I'll stfu about it already.