There is no reason to set up an xml log standard unless there are contest
sponsors willing to use it. Right now they are working on Cabrillo 2.0 so
it looks like they are stuck on that standard for now. Maybe once we show
how flexible xml really is and more developers get used to working with it
there can be a push to get contest sponsors to accept it.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VE5ZX [mailto:ve5zx@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 14:58
> To: k1ttt@arrl.net; 'CQ-Contest MailList'; 'VHF Contesting e-Mail List'
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW VHF Recap for a Dozen participants
>
> 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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