Looking for item ids

[Garan]

I'm a bit confused. I've been looking for a while for a way to tie the item IDs that we get from Bracket's XML feeds to items in the lorebook. I thought I had finally found my answer when I read the Official XML Tags article.

The article says:

An alternate way to link to an item within the Lorebook is to use the XML tag for that item. The markup to do this for the Iron Gloves Recipe looks like:

<recipe id="1879055108" view="link" />

Of course, creating simple hyperlinks this way can be harder than simply using the MediaWiki markup as you need to view the source of the page you want to link to in order to get the ID of the item. However, it does have the advantage of maintaining links if the names of items get changed in game updates.

yet when I navigate to the Iron Gloves Recipe page and view the page source I don't find the id, 1879055108, anywhere in the page source. I was hoping it would be in a meta tag right at the top of the page like the description and keywords. Am I missing something? Have item IDs been dropped from the pages?

[Duwis]

I'll take things a bit out of order here...

when I navigate to the Iron Gloves Recipe page and view the page source I don't find the id, 1879055108, anywhere in the page source. I was hoping it would be in a meta tag right at the top of the page like the description and keywords. Am I missing something? Have item IDs been dropped from the pages?

No, item IDs have not been dropped from the articles. I can't be entirely sure, but I think the source of your confusion is our recent deployment of a rich editor for the Lorebook. This hides the standard wiki source behind a more friendly editing system.

Our custom tags are now hidden behind a tag that simply reads

<Special>

in this editor. If you edit an article and see this and/or a link saying 'Disable Rich Editor', you won't immediately see the old tags. Disable the rich editor to do so.

Having said that...

I'm a bit confused. I've been looking for a while for a way to tie the item IDs that we get from Bracket's XML feeds to items in the lorebook.

If you are looking to easily link to articles based on the returned XML, you can simply take the ID found in this

<item id="1879094683" name="Doom-hunter's Helm" ... />

and create a link like this

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Special:Lotroresource?id=1879094683

which is what I am guessing is what you want to do. If not, please provide more details, and we'll guide you along.

[Garan]

If you are looking to easily link to articles based on the returned XML, you can simply take the ID found in this

<item id="1879094683" name="Doom-hunter's Helm" ... />

and create a link like this

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Special:Lotroresource?id=1879094683

which is what I am guessing is what you want to do. If not, please provide more details, and we'll guide you along.

Your reply pointed me in the right direction. My confusion was the phrase "view the source of the page" which I took to mean the "view source" option from the browser when it meant the source from the forum editor. Note, when logged in you have to use the Edit link and then Disable Rich Editor but I accidentally found a shortcut for my purpose, when not logged in there is a "View Source" link which takes me right to the editor source.

Anyway, my confusion has been eliminated, thanks Duwis.

[Banaticus]

I would just leave the rich editor turned off -- it can't handle normal wiki tables, nor can it handle most templates that I've seen. It might make bolding, italicizing, etc., easier and <h#> tags will stand our more, but that's its only benefit.