Unable to use Corporate Command UNID strings (solved)

[NMS]

I own Corporate Command and I've tried including

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<Library UNID="&unidCorporateHierarchyVol01;"/>

but it results in an error like:

Error parsing Extensions\Auton Bay Misc Slot.xml: Auton Bay Misc Slot.xml: Line(20): Invalid entity: unidCorporateHierarchyVol01

The extension works if I replace all the UNID strings with their corresponding hex codes. But including the library by hex code doesn't seem to do anything. The other entities still can't be referred to by string and the extension can be selected to include in a game without Corporate Command, resulting in a crash.

EDIT: Through careful error checking, it now just doesn't do anything if the entities don't exist or don't have the expected subelements.

[TheLoneWolf]

Try redeclaring these entities in a separate file :/

[AssumedPseudonym]

Try redeclaring these entities in a separate file :/

 It’s an ugly fix (and one that shouldn’t be necessary, besides), but it would work as a stopgap measure.

[TheLoneWolf]

Some sorta header-guard-used-on-library type of error.

We gotta go ugly AP

[NMS]

OK, it works if I include this, even in the same file:

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	<!ENTITY unidCorporateHierarchyVol01    "0x00810000">
	<!ENTITY scConstellationPlayer			"0x00800002">

The second one is needed because it's declared in Corporate Command, not Corporate Hierarchy Vol 01. But maybe it's better practice to declare all the entities I modify anyway?

EDIT: I tried putting

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extends=		"0x00800000"

in the <TranscendenceExtension> to make it extend Corporate Command, but that actually seems to prevent it from showing up on the extensions list at all.

[AssumedPseudonym]

OK, it works if I include this, even in the same file:

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	<!ENTITY unidCorporateHierarchyVol01    "0x00810000">
	<!ENTITY scConstellationPlayer			"0x00800002">

The second one is needed because it's declared in Corporate Command, not Corporate Hierarchy Vol 01. But maybe it's better practice to declare all the entities I modify anyway?

 …Bluh. Yeah, just declaring the UNID for the library and then calling it would do the trick. I should have known that, I’ve had to do it before, myself. >.<

EDIT: I tried putting

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extends=		"0x00800000"

in the <TranscendenceExtension> to make it extend Corporate Command, but that actually seems to prevent it from showing up on the extensions list at all.

 You can only extend adventures. Corporate Command is an extension to the “Stars of the Pilgrim” adventure, not an adventure in and of itself.

[NMS]

That makes sense. It turns out it does also work to declare the library by number:

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	<Library UNID="0x00810000"/>

I was getting thrown off by the library not including the Constellation.