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

[Mike]

Zdenek Sebek wrote:
> I will not comment internal format of Cabrillo, because it would be too long. I will write only this. AFAIK the main reason why the Cabrillo has been born is to have a logfile format which it would be easy to import into the log checking systems. I have seen many cabrillo files produced by many contest logging programs and different versions of these programs. A have also written parsers for native logs from CT, TRLog, SD, ADIF and some more. From this experience I have learned it is MUCH EASIER to write a ROBUST parser any native log format than for the Cabrillo. And in general it is even easier (or at least not more difficult) to maintain several parsers for native log formats than one for Cabrillo. Please note word ROBUST, which means the parser is able to process succesfully many different versions of Cabrillo STANDARD logs. And for those suggesting to use ADIF - to parse an ADIF is even worse.
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Huh? All you have to do is read it in, and look for the tags. MUCH 
simpler. And more ROBUST. Same for XML. What do you mean by
native log format ?
73, Mike NF4L