FourFire's Mod Derps

[FourFire]

Hello, this is a thread which I am starting in order to have a place to post my derp ups and ask how to do things properly with xml...

First up:
In transdata there is the following xml file: paste.neurohack.com/view/YrkFv/

I am wondering how to turn it into a mod and from there modify values so that those overwrite the default values and I can have fun stuff like centauri exploding like phobii.

I have already tried to simply insert it into my extensions folder, but upon testing the changes I made to explosion power have failed to take effect so that's not right.

Second of all:
The tinkers.xml looks like this: http://paste.neurohack.com/view/YLM3F/
on lines #246 to #248 the price of the customwork action is defined, currently it is the same (50 credits) indescriminate if you are converting five ceralloy ore into an armor plate or if you are producing patcher arms from barrels of repairing nanites.
what I would like to know is:
how may the price be set to 10% of the default value of the output item?

that way if one were to add further customwork recipes producing low value items wouldn't be exhorbiantly expensive, and producing high value items wouldn't be laughably cheap.

[TVR]

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(setq gCost (multiply gCount 50))

Replace the above with this:

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(setq gCost (multiply (divide (itmGetPrice (itmCreate (item gMatch 2))) 10) gCount))

Where cost to manufacture is value of finished item * 10% * quantity of finished items.

As for overwriting (vanilla) global functions, it needs to be in a Transcendence extension:

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<!DOCTYPE TranscendenceExtension
	[	
		<!ENTITY tsFourFireExtensionAlpha	"0xE0001337">
	]>

<TranscendenceExtension UNID="&tsFourFireExtensionAlpha;" version="1.1" name="FourFire's Mod">

<!-- Mod stuff here -->

</TranscendenceExtension>

Just copy and paste the <Globals> section to inside the Transcendence extension tags. Remember to change the UNID as appropriate. I believe Globals from mods are loaded after the ones in vanilla, therefore overwriting them.

[FourFire]

Thanks a Heap TVR
the line I was missing was the "<!DOCTYPE TranscendenceExtension" before the UNID list

I'll test that other code right now