XML, log files and anything else that may help...

[BlindPilot]

Hi guys,

Been a while since ive posted on the board, but thought i'd ask in here about my current problem.

Im currently trying to create a LAN Party ranking system. Now one problem with this, is that diffferent games produce differently styled and structured log files, this ofcoarse, means an automated system has to be rather complex to deal with different games.

This lead me to the idea of creating a system that puts the game's data into an XML file with can then be easily read / understood / used by an automated program.

My question is this, where the hell would i start? I have absolutely no idea of how to get the log file data into an XML file. Any advice will be greatly received.

Thanks,

BP

[TonyT]

Unless you are running a web server with some scripting language, you would be better off getting all the data into a spreadsheet or access db. It could probably be done using batch or command files for each log.