Import XP5 dive data from Seemann software

[Berthold Cogel]

Am 28.08.2013 01:36, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Berthold Cogel <cogel at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>>
>> Before I switched to a Vyper Air, I made a lot of dives with an old XP5
>> (Seemann Sub) and downloaded the dive data to the Seemann software.
>> I can export the dives as ASCII-Files (one file per dive). How can I
>> import the dives into subsurface? Is there a converter? Or a
>> specification for an import file format?
> 
> There's no "specification" for an import file format, but the native
> subsurface xml is a very readable ASCII file, and subsurface will
> import pretty much anything that looks remotely like xml, guessing (if
> required) its way to something half-way reasonable. So turning some
> other file into xml that looks even remotely like the native
> subsurface xml will probably go a long way.
> 
> What kind of ascii files are the Seeman Sub files? Are you willing to
> share a few examples (possibly together with screen-shots of how the
> dive looks in the native software, just so that we can match up units
> etc)? We've written importers for various things, and it's not
> necessarily all that hard.
> 
> Alternatively, some files are so obscured on purpose (I'm looking at
> you, Cochran) that importing them is totally impossible. The fact that
> yours are ASCII
> 
>             Linus
> 

I made screenshots of three dives. One was with nitrox. And I imported
the data in spreadsheets. The fields are separated by tabs. You can
download the files together with the exported ASCII files:

http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0537/XP5.zip


Berthold