Add EVE HTML Documentation - #309
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Wherever text in EVE can be formatted — a mail, a character bio, a corporation description, an item's description — the client stores it as a small HTML-like markup, and ESI returns it byte for byte. It has never been specified anywhere and third-party developers have been reconstructing it from each other's parsers. Adds a guide covering where the markup turns up, its lexical quirks, the tag and color reference, the in-game link schemes, a parsing recipe with two Python snippets, and the rendering hazards on the web. Grounded in CCP's own parser: Tr2LabelTextParser.cpp in the open-sourced Carbon engine is the tokenizer the client's UI Label uses, which settles the complete tag set, the four character entities that are decoded, the whitespace rules, and what happens to a stray "<" (the client discards to the next ">", or drops the rest of the string if there is none). The showinfo: section documents resolving the type ID discriminator through the SDE's group and category, so parsers no longer need the hardcoded station and character type ID lists that circulate between projects — one of which classifies type 14, a Moon, as a station. Every example, statistic and mapping in the page was checked against the SDE, the ESI spec, markup captured from the live client, or a browser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T4nfZQWFzW8N2ZYtbbzL5H
Wherever text in EVE can be formatted — a mail, a character bio, a corporation description, an item's description — the client stores it as a small HTML-like markup, and ESI returns it byte for byte. It has never been specified anywhere and third-party developers have been reconstructing it from each other's parsers. Adds a guide covering where the markup turns up, its lexical quirks, the tag and color reference, the in-game link schemes, a parsing recipe with two Python snippets, and the rendering hazards on the web. Grounded in CCP's own parser: Tr2LabelTextParser.cpp in the open-sourced Carbon engine is the tokenizer the client's UI Label uses, which settles the complete tag set, the four character entities that are decoded, the whitespace rules, and what happens to a stray "<" (the client discards to the next ">", or drops the rest of the string if there is none). The showinfo: section documents resolving the type ID discriminator through the SDE's group and category, so parsers no longer need the hardcoded station and character type ID lists that circulate between projects — one of which classifies type 14, a Moon, as a station. Every example, statistic and mapping in the page was checked against the SDE, the ESI spec, markup captured from the live client, or a browser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T4nfZQWFzW8N2ZYtbbzL5H
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Improvements to the documentation for EVE HTML and in-game links