[aprssig] APRS Developers: tocalls.txt has now been formatted for XML style

[Rob Riggs]

Json might be easier to deal with these days.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 15:13 David Andrzejewski via aprssig <
aprssig at lists.tapr.org> wrote:

> That's not going to be a very useful XML file for programmers.  To make
> it more programmatically-readable, you'd want something closer to this:
>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
> <tocalls>
>    <prefix name="APn" description="3rd digit is a number">
>         <tocall>
>                 <name>AP1WWX</name>
>                 <description>TAPR T-238+ WX Station</description>
>         </tocall>
>         <tocall>
>                 <name>AP1MAJ</name>
>                 <description>Martyn M1MAJ DeLorme inReach
> Tracker</description>
>         </tocall>
>    </prefix>
>    <prefix name="APA" description="AFilter">
>         <tocall>
>                 <name>APAGWx</name>
>                 <description>SV2AGW's AGWtracker</description>
>         </tocall>
>         <tocall>
>                 <name>APALxx</name>
>                 <description>Alinco DR-620/635 internal TNC digis. "Hachi"
> ,JF1AJE</description>
>         </tocall>
>    </prefix>
> </tocalls>
> <altnets>
>    <altnet name="SATERN" description="Salvation Army"/>
>    <altnet name="AFMARS" description="Airforce Mars"/>
> </altnets>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2019-07-24 16:03, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> > Paul Dufresne VE3OTB has urged me to convert the TOCALLS.TXT file to
> > something readable in XML so that APRS developers can automatically
> > read
> > the file.  It does not have all the header stuff, but should work?
> >
> > http://aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt
> >
> > He noticed that APRS.fi is working from an old tocalls file.
> > He figures he is not the only one that would benefit.
> > And I think Lynn has had similar frustrations.
> >
> > Bob
> >
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