[PATCH] Recognize O2 percentage from MacDive import

[Dirk Hohndel]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:54 AM,  <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> wrote:
>>
>> MacDive use "o2percent" in its XML export
>
> I don't know if you're aware of this, but for totally historical
> reasons, subsurface has a "verbosity" flag that when you set it to two
> or more, will talk about all the XML tags it doesn't understand while
> parsing.
>
> So you can do "subsurface -vv macdive.xml" to see subsurface talk
> about all the xml tags it ignores because it doesn't know what the
> heck they are. Your example dive has a few events, for example. So you
> get things like
>
>   Unable to match sample 'dives.dive.samples.sample.alarm' (po2_high)
>   Unable to match sample 'dives.dive.samples.sample.alarm' (deep_stop)
>   Unable to match sample 'dives.dive.samples.sample.alarm' (surface)
>
> which could be turned into events, but currently aren't.
>
> I didn't bother, in the hope that Miika would just do it in the xslt,
> but if you want to use the current parser then the "-vv" trick may be
> useful.
>
> Of course, *most* of the things that subsurface doesn't understand are
> about all the equipment management that macdive clearly does. So it's
> about the model of the knife that you had with you on the dive. We
> just don't track things like that, so teaching the xml parser to
> *parse* them is the least of your worries.
>
> How married are people to the whole "tell the dive log about all the
> gear you had?" It isn't something I'm all that interested in
> personally, and it clearly won't be for 3.0, but maybe we want to at
> least discuss it..

I had thought about adding an "Extras" tab that allowed to present
random data like this in a semi-structured form...

/D