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

[Rob Riggs]

Nice work, Hessu!

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 16:46 Heikki Hannikainen <hessu at hes.iki.fi> wrote:

>
> 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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>
>    - Hessu
>
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