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

[Heikki Hannikainen]

Hi,

I'm sorry, Bob, but that is not an useful XML format. Each element would 
have to be enclosed in tags, something like this (not a pretty-printed 
version, sorry):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hessu/aprs-deviceid/master/generated/tocalls.xml

This has probably been forgotten about, but I've formatted tocalls.txt 
contents (along with mic-e type code data) to YAML which is 
machine-readable *and* nicer to edit by hand than XML:

https://github.com/hessu/aprs-deviceid/blob/master/tocalls.yaml
https://github.com/hessu/aprs-deviceid

and also provided a converter script which converts that to both XML *and* 
JSON which is a bit more popular than XML in most developer circles these 
days. It also validates that the files are parseable.

https://github.com/hessu/aprs-deviceid/tree/master/generated

This is what aprs.fi (and probably some other apps) are using now as a 
machine-readable format.


On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, 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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