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

[Mike]

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