Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Maybe it's time to revisit the Cabrillo format, in light of several
> years of experience. It has a couple of obvious short comings, and
> it's not (to my way of thinking) cleanly extensible. Both problems
> can be solved with a new log format. And preferable something
> lighter than full blown XML.
>
> While it may sound like a reversion to the dark ages, the venerable
> UNIX termcap database format seems eminently suitable to the task at
> hand. It's trivial to parse (with free BSD code to do the job), and
> the data format is almost infinitely extensible, and in a manner that
> won't get broken by forwards or backwards compatibility.
>
> If anyone is seriously interested in contributing to this
> alternative, feel free to drop me a note.
>
> --lyndon
I believe the best solution would be either ADIF or XML. A plus for ADIF
is that the fields are already defined.
XML tags would have to be defined, and agreed on. It would be marginally
easier to parse.
73, Mike NF4L
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