XML: was Bedding planes, rose diagrams and bug fix

[Michael Lake]

John Pybus wrote:
> To stop this being just another me-too post, I'll also mention that I
> have very early working code of a port of cavern to the Palm pilot.
> It's not yet ready for even an alpha release (it needs a hex editor to
> get data into it...) but once it is, I'll put a copy up on my website.
> Anyone with a palm, who would be interested in using it for cave
> surveying, and who has any suggestions of what features are most
> important, should let me know of their interest.

Another reason to keep cavern and its data format lean and mean. With a
Palm one could enter data in the field and get pos info for plotting on
graph paper back at camp. If the data format for cavern started to get
lots more tags or attributes in it to process then its speed and
usefulness on such smaller devices would be compromised. Applications
such as Smaps, Compass, Karst, Walls etc are unlikely to ever run on a
Palm as they are already quite large compared to cavern. 

Mike 
> 
> Yours,
> 
> John
> 
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