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Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW VHF Recap for a Dozen participants

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW VHF Recap for a Dozen participants
From: "VE5ZX" <ve5zx@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:58:19 -0600
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Won't it make sense to set an XML standard for log exchanges at the same 
time as setting the standard for results reporting. This way there would be 
a reference from which developers could begin to work on the tools and 
logging programs to migrate from Cabrillo to XML?

Syl

Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX
Saskatoon, SK

>I would love to see xml replace Cabrillo, and also for contest sponsors to
> supply xml specifications for their contests.  This would eliminate the 
> need
> for country and other multiplier list files, logger authors trying to
> customize scoring and log submission formats for each contest, and a whole
> bunch of other ugly things most people don't see.  This would make adding
> new contests to a logging program as easy as downloading the contest
> sponsor's xml file.  maybe someday...
>
>
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
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