[Kalzium] Problems with elements.xml

[Henry de Valence]

On Fri May 8 2009 4:42:28 am Carsten Niehaus wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.05.2009, 23:28 -0400 schrieb Henry de Valence:
> > I'm working on a little personal project (basically, a printed periodic
> > table of the elements on some large A size, like A1 or A2) that involves
> > the use of data on chemical elements.
> >
> > However when I try to use the XML file in either python, using pyxml, or
> > in ruby, using xmlsimple, I get errors.
>
> <snip>
>
> May I ask you to download
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189199
>
> and try again?
>
> Kalzium is using a local copy of those files. If it doesn't work with
> that download it is a bug that I will take care of.
>
> Please report back.
>
>
> By the way: Posterprinting sounds cool and could be integrated in
> Kalzium itself!
>
> Carsten

I get the same error using that download.
By the way, is it possible to extract from one of those files (I looked in 
isotopes.xml but didn't see what I was looking for) the number of stable 
isotopes and the number of naturally occurring isotopes? It seems as though 
stable isotopes are indicated with half-life of -1, but I didn't see something 
indicating natural occurrence.

Henry de Valence

P.S. With regard to the posterprinting, I'm not sure if it would really be 
workable to integrate into Kalzium; basically my process is as follows:
1. Create one item as an SVG file in Inkscape (I'm using Uuq, since it has a 
long name, so if the text fits for Uuq, it's likely to fit for the other 
elements)
2. Replace all the text with easily-distinguishable placeholders (e.g. SYMB, 
ELEMENT_NAME, ATM_NUM etc)
3. Use some script which I have yet to write to fill in the data and place all 
the boxes
4. Combine in Inkscape and add stuff like title, legend, etc

Basically I am using a script to do the easy stuff and do the hard stuff 
(design) in Inkscape. So I don't know how one would add that to Kalzium.