Dear Alois, dear Bart, I agree with most of your comments, except your favoring of XML. XML was the dernier cri at the beginning of the millenium. In the...
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skylendar
Jan 12, 2012 2:07 pm
Alas, 10 years ago, I already proposed a file transfer format named skif and based upon XML, that could partially or totally fulfill your requirements. See...
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Gour
ggd_108
Jan 12, 2012 2:10 pm
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:07:27 -0000 ... Then it's next to useless. Sincerely, Gour -- From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of...
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Victor Reijs
victor_reijs
Jan 12, 2012 2:10 pm
I would favor a non-domain specific format like XML. In the world of WebServcies (SaaS, IaaS, etc. of the Googles and Amazons) XML is quite important. And I...
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skylendar
Jan 12, 2012 3:17 pm
Here is an example of a SKIF file, straight out from my database: <?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE SKIF PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD skif 1.1//EN"...
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Victor Reijs
victor_reijs
Jan 12, 2012 3:23 pm
Thanks that makes it concrete. And I like it;-) But ok, I like standards and WebServcies based ideas (part of my professional work);-) Now looking at the...
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skylendar
Jan 12, 2012 3:56 pm
... Oh no, it is not redundant but necessary... you should know how tricky is the question of the timezone attribution. DATE contains the parameters of the...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 12, 2012 4:15 pm
... The progress of this work depends mostly on my time resources. During my long summer vacations in the south of France, I could spend a lot of time on the...
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Victor Reijs
victor_reijs
Jan 12, 2012 6:10 pm
Hello Skylender, ... *I think I *know... But that is not important, it is about the definition of fields in XML. So now I understand that some fields in 'DATE'...
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Bart Lidofsky
bml07646
Jan 12, 2012 6:26 pm
Thank you, Alois. If you can continue to challenge me the way you did in your message, then please continue speak directly, because even when I disagreed with...
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Bart Lidofsky
bml07646
Jan 12, 2012 6:53 pm
... I can see, from the documentation I can find, that it is primarily used to transfer chart databases from one program to another, as opposed to transferring...
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Ehsan.kh
ekhazeni
Jan 12, 2012 8:15 pm
Hi, I have some suggestions: 1- Please note that only main data should not considered.Sometimes it should be capable to save all planetary information into XML...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 12, 2012 8:50 pm
... As others have said already, AAF has been adopted. There are quite a few large and good astrology software packages in German, for example Sarastro,...
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Bart Lidofsky
bml07646
Jan 12, 2012 8:57 pm
I looked for the dtd; it wasn't there. Bart ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Ed Falis
efalis
Jan 12, 2012 9:13 pm
... I can't think of anything I'd remove there....
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skylendar
Jan 12, 2012 11:52 pm
... Ok, I uploaded it....
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Bart Lidofsky
bml07646
Jan 13, 2012 3:18 am
... OK, it appears to be designed to contain lists of charts, not chart information. However, there is something helpful there. I notice that you have a...
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skylendar
Jan 13, 2012 2:21 pm
... No, a skif DATASET doesn't contain a "list of charts". I don't know what a "list of charts" is. A DATASET is a chunk of data that includes relevant info...
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Rüdiger Plantiko
ruediger.pla...
Jan 13, 2012 3:57 pm
Hi, here goes my proposal for an astrological data format. The dashed lines only separate the data in this mail, they do not belong to the format itself. ... ...
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Bart Lidofsky
bml07646
Jan 13, 2012 4:33 pm
... A dataset is a type of list. What I meant, in my hurry to type, is that it contains the basic "header" information from a single horoscope, rather than any...
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Rüdiger Plantiko
ruediger.pla...
Jan 13, 2012 4:43 pm
Hi, here goes my proposal for an astrological data format. The dashed lines only separate the data in this mail, they do not belong to the format itself. ... ...
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David Cochrane
keplerastrology
Jan 13, 2012 5:08 pm
Years ago we implemented the ability to run Solar Fire, Delphic Oracle, and Kala from within Kepler and Sirius so that a user could, for example, enter birth...
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skylendar
Jan 13, 2012 5:31 pm
... Again, you don't understand what a zoneinfo file is. You can't define all the zoneinfo files in enumerations, simply because you don't have a finite number...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 13, 2012 5:38 pm
Rüdiger please add longitude and latitude, as they are required to create a chart. Lookup of coordinates is not trivial, because - places may have no name or...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 13, 2012 5:43 pm
... As an example: even with a rather stable atlas database as a reference source, there are spelling corrections for mistyped city names. A previous...
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Rüdiger Plantiko
ruediger.pla...
Jan 13, 2012 5:53 pm
Alois, there will be reference / lookup catalogs dealing with most of the details you mention. If not specified explicitly, reasonable default catalogues will...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 13, 2012 5:59 pm
Rüdiger, I like the format you proposed. But because it is a FORMAT, it still needs the details carefully looked at. And I have a lot of painful experience...
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Rüdiger Plantiko
ruediger.pla...
Jan 13, 2012 6:14 pm
Alois, I agree completely, there would be many details to be fixed before a format of such kind could be used productively. I am sure they could all be solved,...
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Jonathan Dunn
jonathanclar...
Jan 15, 2012 4:30 pm
Hi If someone could post or send me formulas for finding prime vertical coordinate for a body? - presumably converting from body's ecliptical long & lat, and...
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Ed Falis
efalis
Jan 15, 2012 4:45 pm
... Hi Jon, These are measured clockwise from the horizon - you may want to reverse or adapt in some other way. tan (P - 90) = sin (RAMC - RA) / (cos (RAMC -...
