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

[David Robbins K1TTT]

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 at arrl.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of VE5ZX
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 22:51
> To: CQ-Contest MailList; VHF Contesting e-Mail List; Pete Smith
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW VHF Recap for a Dozen participants
> 
> > The problem, as I see it, is that you don't want the VHF guys going one
> > way and the HF guys another - that helps neither, and can actually
> > obstruct progress.
> 
> 
> A neat thing about an XML standard for dynamic and non-dynamic contest
> reporting is that it is based on an accepted industry standard. There are
> loads of open source tools for handling XML..
> 
> Is there anyway the DTD can be extended so that it can be used to exchange
> contest logs too?
> 
> Syl
> 
> 
> Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX
> Saskatoon, SK
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