FIRST Event Data in XML format

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

http://schreiaj.ath.cx/share/FRC_Par...alschedule.php will provide the qualification schedules for the regionals that are not bizarre.

I believe that bizarre page formatting comes from the pages being opened in Microsoft Word, edited, and saved again. Some result pages are full of Word HTML markup.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I believe that bizarre page formatting comes from the pages being opened in Microsoft Word, edited, and saved again. Some result pages are full of Word HTML markup.

Don't get me started on Word and HTML

On an unrelated note, in the spirit of open source all the code is available http://schreiaj.ath.cx/share/FRC_Parsers/ and the current versions I am working on at the moment are at http://schreiaj.ath.cx/share/FRC_Parsers/Parsers_Beta/

[Nibbles]

Where did you find frclinks.com? That's a nifty idea.

I don't know how well one parsing method works against others, a regex will work as long as they don't add a new table to the document, and don't add non-numerical data. Likewise, an HTML parser will, and will also properly handle entities like < , but any change in structure will not work (though that is a simple parameter change telling it the new path to the data). I just use the DOM and SimpleXML parsers in PHP, Python (eewww, Python) must have something similar.

I have an initiative to standardize how FIRST data is published, XML Interchange format. An example that mixes the rankings and schedule:

<event season="2009" code="GLR">
        <team number="67" game:rank="1" game:win="12" game:lost="0" game:tie="0" game:plays="0" game:qs="24.00" game:rs="51.75" game:mp="117" />
        ...

        <match type="qualification" number="1" time="11:45">
            <alliance name="red">
                <team position="1" number="1940"/>
                <team position="2" number="216"/>
                <team position="3" number="123"/>
            </alliance>
            <alliance name="blue">
                <team position="1" number="1896"/>
                <team position="2" number="468"/>
                <team position="3" number="894"/>
            </alliance>
        </match>
        ...
</event>

Where game is some XML namespace (if you like).

As for licensing, as a rule of thumb, if the code is shorter then the license would be, I put it in public domain.