h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am attempting the troublesome task of turning My Space from Plain Text to GuideML. I know HTML so this shouldn't be a problem. But none of my text shows up!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/TestUserPage203906

You've got two lots of tags. Even though the tag shows up when you test pages you mustn't have any at all in the code you type into the Edit box.

It catches a lot of people out.

Amy

Ah. Now I'm getting somewhere! You see, I looked at somebody else's Space to figure out how to do it. I need to put in tags now I assume?

note the final slash. All tags in GuideML must have a closing tag. is short for , which will also work.

Yeah, I just noticed that unlike HTML, GuideML REQUIRES you to close your tags. So does work?

You know, I've never tried it . Let me know.

The other tags you'll often close in that way are and <SMILEY>

works! I've already used smiley. Now I want to make a table of Natural Habitats For A Nerd42. (places I go on h2g2)

Nerd42

Any XML element can be opened and closed in the same tag and still be technically valid but be aware this may make it a meaningless element and / or cause poorly written XML software to freak out. On occasion I've had to replace a perfectly valid "" tag with " " because a poorly written piece of software was choking on it and eating the rest of my document (it was Internet Explorer in my case).

Hey, I like IE.



Nerd42

Well, I must admit it's not the worst piece of software I've used but it does have a fair number of issues, particularly for web developers.

Netscape has two advantages as far as I can tell, better Java support, and the tag. Other than that, IE rocks!

I'm trying to put a View Source button on My Space. Does this work?

I'm also trying to get my own channel on 42FM!

654?thread=65458" >F115513?thread=324258

I'm going to want to make one of those box thingies that lets you start your own thread or post to an existing thread using a form in the entry. How do I do that?

Nerd42

<./>GuideML-GUESTBOOK</.>? I'm not sure...

Tango

Your link
Does this work?

The first <LINK has got a extra I in it

GG

That was just a typo here. When I checked the user page before it was correct there.

that was a typo.

Look what I'm doing to the H2G2 RPG page! (see link from My Space)

Nerd42

You listed the blink tag as an advantage?



I've introduced a few friends and family members to Mozilla Firebird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/) and they've all said they'd never go back to Internet Explorer - built in popup blocking and tabbed browsing are sweet. As an added bonus it cuts down on the amount of spyware and adware you can install accidentally.

yeah, you can annoy all kindsa people with the BLINK tag

(joking, I seriously don't want to annoy people, and wouldn't use the blink tag if IE had it)

Nerd42

Actually IE can be tricked into showing a BLINK tag.

See the lurker badge on my space

well, yeah. with javascript or something. what a waste of effort.

looks like the h2g2 radio is dead because it's creator hasn't replied to anybody since february.

Hey, does GuideML have a random number genorator of any kind?

Nerd42

The "blink" is imaginative use of the existing MARQUEE parameters. I don't know how many browsers it actually works on though.

h2g2 used to have random banner adverts pre-BBC. So the random number generation exists in the underlying site code (Jim Lynn even said he doesn't throw stuff away as a rule) but I've never seen it under GuideML control.