[K3] [Elecraft] UTILITY Improvements

[Tom AK2B]

Exactly. You have my vote. XML (data) should be totally transparent to the
end user. Hosting a simple editer makes life easy for everyone and as you
said, no program need be distributed. All data is stored locally on the
client's computer. 

Tom, AK2B


David Reid-9 wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> This XML idea is great...I could make a webpage and application ( hosted
> on
> my server (or Elecraft's)) where you could go to a webpage, upload your
> config, mess about with it and download
> it, then, instead of having loads of programs all over the world -
> possibly
> needing updates, if the format or tagging changed, then we can just change
> one option - (select firmware revision) and automatically implement new
> features in the XML.... the idea of being able to edit the memories is
> really cool and quite easy to achieve... Perhaps Simon also has some
> ideas...
> 
> If we can develop a spec for the interchange format - I could write some
> code for this type of tool quite easily, - when you down,load the file,
> you
> could select either XML or CSV - no probs.
> 
> XML is just a tagging method - so you can easily find,change and insert
> data into a structure...it is not black magic. Professionally, I develop
> applications for creating and manipulating XML and CSV data...
> but I prefer to have an online version of the file editor - it is much
> easier to handle updates and changes, than in a distributed system....
> 
> Your thoughts please...
> 
> David  A. Reid
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