Index of fics? (was: Re: Unconventional Spike Shipping, An Overview)

["Eric Bailey" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffyloveswillow@xxxxxxxxxxx, sbooth@a... wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:29:53 EDT, you wrote:
>
> These are excellent!
>
>
> >Spike: "FUNNY?!!! I was helpless, in a wheelchair, being
molested by three
> >drunk teenagers..."
> >(Buffy, Willow, and Cordy start laughing, hysterically)
> >
> >It seems the three were having a sleepover, drinking lots of wine
coolers,
> >and looking at smut Cordy had swiped from Harmony's mom...
>
> E (or anyone) I don't suppose theres any chance of a bibliography
> for these. I'm seeing a lot of 'ships here that I've not found
> the fics for yet.

I suppose I do need to do that. Hope I can track 'em all down...
> Actually what do people think of the possibility of an online fic
> database where people can search for fics by say author name,
> pairing, rating, classification (eg angst, humour &c), date first
> published &c? Should be possible with something like MySQL and
> PHP. Rather than an archive of fic have it storing URLs to other
> archives which store the actual fics? Just a thought.
>
> May be even used XML files to store the data and
> JSPs/CGI/Servlets to do the search and XSL(T) processing.
> Entities could look something like (comments/notes in [], example
> in ** **) :
>
> <fanfic>
> <title>
> [The title of the fic. Required field, one and only one]
> **"In Harms Way 1/?"**
> </title>
> <author>
> [Author detils
> <name>
> [The name of the author. Required field, one and only one]
> **"Kathryn Merteuil"**
> </name>
> <emailaddr>
> [The authors email address. Optional field, one only]
> **KathrynMerteuil@b...**
> </emailaddr>
> </author>
> <pairings>
> [One or more pairings. Optional, if pairing tag used then must
have at least one pair ]
> <pair>
> [A pairing that appears in the fic.]
> **"Willow/Tara"**
> </pair>
> <pair>
> **"Willow/Harmony"**
> </pair>
> <pair>
> **"Harmony/Tara"**
> </pair>
> </pairing>
> <rating>
> [The rating of the fic, Required field, one and only one]
> **R**
> </rating>
> <classification>
> [The classification of the fic, not sure if this should be
required or optional]
> <class>
> [A class]
> **"Humour"**
> </class>
> <class>
> **"Femslash"**
> </class>
> </classification>
> <summary>
> [A brief summary of the fic]
> **"Willow and Tara cast a spell which has unforseen results"**
> </summary>
> <source value="URL|DESC">
> [Where the fic can be obtained from. Required field]
> [If value="URL" then will contain one or more <uri> tags]
> [If value="DESC" then will contain one and only one <desc>
tag]
> <uri>
> [A URL from which the fic can be downloaded]
> **http://www.abooth.demon.co.uk/fanfic/inharmsway.htm**
> </uri>
> <desc>
> [A description of how to obtain the fic]
> [This is purely an example here, as a URL was supplied
there shouldn't be a <desc> tag]
> **"Email author for a copy"**
> </desc>
> </source>
> </fanfic>
>
>
> So what do people think?

I like it, a lot. It would be difficult to do, keeping track of it
all, but if it can be done...

E