CQ-Contest
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [CQ-Contest] A Plea to Cabrillo Contet Robot Writers

To: "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>,<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A Plea to Cabrillo Contet Robot Writers
From: "VE5ZX" <ve5zx@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:04:00 -0600
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
> 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

I agree!

> can be solved with a new log format.  And preferable something
> lighter than full blown XML.

Fortunately or unfortunately there are loads of open source tools available 
to handle XML. It has durability and it is broadly supported by commercial, 
academic and open source communities. The radio sport community might 
benefit from the contributions a broader community can make if it were to 
grandfather Cabrillo in favour of XML.

Syl

Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX
Saskatoon, SK 

_______________________________________________
CQ-Contest mailing list
CQ-Contest@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>