I need some help on creating an activity

[perfecttrains1000]

Okey, I'll leave the next "activity doesn't work" up to you

Nah im joking, to be far it would be better for someone with more experience like you to find errors
Plus i seem to ask for help on my activities so im not generally the best

[Sgt_DeBones]

To be honest, 80% of the "my activity doesn't work" issues reported here can be resolved by copying your act file into https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-validator-xsd.html and seeing whats wrong.

Pin this comment.

[PetttRocket]

Michiel
Pin the new topic and close it

@ Sgt_DeBones
Then the link is everytime on the first page of the forum

[macaronny]

I made correction but still can't work and I tried to check the validation that Michiel gives and stated 'The Content Of Elements Must Consist Of Well-formed Character Data Or Markup' and I don't understand what that means. If you don't mind to help me to check again the code that will be great thanks.

[Sjoerd]

It tells you were the problem is located; line 153. So simply look up line 153:

<<train pack="London" file="LUS7.xml">

There's your problem: you started with two times "<".

[macaronny]

I have put the </consist> here but it still catch the same error somehow. Sorry for keep asking questions

[Sjoerd]

In the screenshot I see you have made the same error multiple times, which I have explained here already: http://sim.bemined.nl/forum/viewtopic.p ... 643#p27060
The problem here is not the "consist" element, it's the "train" element; You open and close a 'chapter' "train" two times within the blue marked bit in your screenshot (opening with <train and closing with /). As it should be; for every train you place, so this is correct. The option of leaving out / and replacing it with a </train> later, is just so you can add in extra properties for that train (like an enabled cab).

But then you put in a train-closure </train> after that. What are you closing now? Not the placement of a train, as you already closed that with /.

->>>

And then, you place another train-chapter-closure with </train>. The simulator doesn't understand this, as no train-chapter is open at the moment. So you are closing something that, according to the simulator, doesn't exist at this moment. That is an XML error, and therefore the activity won't show up in the menu.

And I see you keep repeating this error.
Re-check the entire coding, as I think you may have made this error all throughout, and the activity won't show up in the menu screen until all XML errors have been solved.

[Michiel]

https://www.w3schools.com/xml/

[brozma]

And that's, why I never made a fully functional activity. I just don't understand XML programming language at all.
TBH, when Sjoerd released an blank activity, which allowed you to enjoy the MVG type A train with pantographs freely, I had a pretty though time making a copy for Rijndam map (Sjoerd made an activity for Simvliet map). I had to use a "trial-error copy-paste" method where I copied a functional code from another activity and placed it into blank one with MVG type A train, then I booted up Metrosim to see, if it's correct. When it wasn't (it didn't show up in Metrosim), then I closed the Metrosim and started over again.

https://www.w3schools.com/xml/

Maybe this will help me to finally understand XML language. So thnx Michiel for posting it here. If I could, I'll pin it, so everybody, who wants to make an activity and have no idea, how XML language works, can go there and learn it.

[SGJDW_472006]

can someone help me with this activity because when I play the activity I get the time that a metro has to arrive I get 2x shown on the DRIMs