The instructions below were, and are, valid. I tested them.G
Of course your instructions are valid! To a programmer!
Do I know what "any active XML fle is?" Does my father know what that is? Of course not. I hadn't a clue how to do what you told me. You hadn't a clue how I could possibly fail to understand.
This is why programmers never write help files or software tutorials; you assume too much specialist knowledge on the part of your audience.
Lucky that I have SOME experience in this area. My Dad could never hope to make sense out of what you told us. As it was, I found a specific XML file that had a table in it matching the one you provided and I added the code to the bottom of that specific table. That worked.
Would the code you gave me work in any other XML file? I don't know. You seem to imply that it would. But I tried adding it to two others and it didn't work. Of course, I don't write XML so maybe I added it in a way that was wrong. Again. I don't know, because I don't have the requisite knowledge your instructions assume I must possess.
This is actually the same pattern I observe throughout much of this MOD work. Oversights and ellipses, lacunae and and gaps in documenting how to implement the Mods. In many cases,
five minutes extra time spent writing CLEAR instructions would save users many headaches and many many false "bug" reports. When your users fail to understand, it is
never their fault.
I myself originally implemented an earlier version of the Community Patch incorrectly and was experiencing bugs I spent days trying to eliminate. The same bugs were being reported by other users but the programmers couldn't duplicate them -- because, unlike we who were having problems, the programmers had the patch correctly installed.
Most software problems occur at the
human interface.