XML is trivial stuff (to a point). 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@kitepilot.com < > kitepilot@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. >>> -- >>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry >>> Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to >>> multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses >>> from a forwarded message body before clicking Send. >>> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to > multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses > from a forwarded message body before clicking Send. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss