Old C code

[Joseph Sinclair]

If you have examples and/or a data schema(preferred) from the existing and destination systems, I could help with the XML structure and definition...

On 06/28/2013 07:53 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Yes, outputting XML style text IS trivial.  Knowing what all to put there
> is an issue I should be able to resolve by exporting something from
> SubSurface.  Whether there are tools, style sheets or anything to assist
> with converting my data to that form is a bigger question.
> 
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> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:27 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> 
>> XML is trivial stuff <partialtruth>(to a point)</partialtruth>.
>> If you can output text, you can output XML.
>> How do you need to output the XML to make it usable for your next input is
>> a different story.
>> ET
>>
>>
>> Dazed_75 writes:
>>
>>> Thanks for the offer.  We could also just chat sometime.
>>> Looks like I will need to take my existing data which is in one or more
>>> data files and output it in some form of XML which I know next to nothing
>>> about.  I'll be looking for tools and/or tutorial type stuff on that.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:10 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
>>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll be glad to give you a hand when/if the time comes.
>>>> Gotta get my scuba cert too...
>>>> ET
>>>>
>>>> Dazed_75 writes:
>>>>
>>>>> As I said, I was looking over some old C code from my DOS/Windows time
>>>>> about 25 years ago.  I finally found most of what I needed so the main
>>>>> .h
>>>>> include file will compile without error.  It was not as bad as I had
>>>>> thought.  The biggest thing that was confusing me was the plethora of
>>>>> include files and architecture variations I did not have to deal with
>>>>> back
>>>>> then.  Trying to find where something is typedef'd today is a lot more
>>>>> complex.
>>>>> Nevertheless, if I continue this project I may be asking for some
>>>>> assistance from time to time.
>>>>> Basically, I wrote a scuba diving "log" program called "Dive-In" back
>>>>> around 1988 for the same reasons Linus Torvalds did in the last few
>>>>> years.
>>>>> Mine was better than SubSurface in a several ways and SubSurface is
>>>>> better
>>>>> than Dive-In in a number of ways.  I still use Dive-In  and have around
>>>>> 780
>>>>> dives in it, but I have to run it in DosBox or WINE and that causes some
>>>>> issues for me.  I'd like to export the data to a format that SubSurface
>>>>> can
>>>>> import and that is essentially the project.
>>>>> --
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