Hi David, I'm glad I could express myself a bit clearer this time:)))
IMHO there's another argument: Remember how often people (me included ;) had corruptive DBs. Such exports can make inspections less painful. > Fine. Are you aware of any (more or less widespread) no xml based > format (I am not sure if there is an standard) which would fit here? you mean in general or sport/geo-specific? Well in general: JSON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON could fit. (I prefer to use it for my work / projects, where before often CSV was established for data exchange) Pros: - objects with their data attributes can easily be mapped to - today python supports JSON out of the box, very easy to parse i.e. map back to dictionaries etc. - more human readable than XML (three exclamation marks ;) - well established, non-exotic Cons: - unlike CSV you cannot directly load it into some spreadsheet. So CSV could still be useful. > If not, there is always the option to export into GPX+ format > including extensions for data like equipment. Good point, also thought about that. Question: is a GPX+ without any geodata (ie waypoints) but extensions also a valid one? If so one had to define a new schema to put in <extensions>. Nice about this approach is that all data of an activity would be combined. Not so nice: this could become a real Frankenstein-GPX+ ;) Hard to read and parse :/ another option is: YAML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML pro & con somehow similar to JSON, but there is one interesting difference: one can include any XML (e.g. gpx) *as is* into YAML. (in JSON all " and \ will become escaped) I also wonder whether other software (eg SportTracks) does have some kind of exchange formats. Regards, Arnd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Pytrainer-devel mailing list Pytrainer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytrainer-devel
