Repeater Example

Here is a a proposed XML format for repeater information, taking Mississippi as an example.

One use of this structured data might be HT programming software that could read from your database directly.

Here's a sample of what the data from ms.xml looks like:

<repeater call="WB5USN">
 <location>Aberdeen</location>
 <output>147.270</output>
 <offset>+</offset>
 <features>autopatch</features>
</repeater>

For fun, if you have the latest FireFox browser, install the "XForms" standard support from Mozilla.org and view repeater.xhtml. It is a simple HTML page that automatically reads the ms.xml file using XForms and displays it using CSS for formatting:

<html>
 <head>
   <title>Repeaters</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="repeater.css" />
   <model>
     <instance src="ms.xml" />
   </model>
 </head>

 <body>
   <h1>Repeaters for <output ref="@id" /></h1>
   <repeat nodeset="repeater">
     <output ref="@call" />
     <output ref="output" />
     <output ref="offset" />
     <output ref="features" />
   </repeat>

 </body>
</html>

Leigh / WA5ZNU