Re: [avrdude-dev] Initial STK600 support committed to CVS

[Bob Paddock]

On Sunday 16 March 2008 04:49:50 pm Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> Alas, not very much.  What we really need is some conversion from the
> Atmel XML to our own XML.  We are not allowed to store the Atmel XML
> documents anywhere in a public CVS repository, so the only way is to
> convert them,

I know.  The way I set things up is I copied the files from AVRStudio,
put them in a directory.  When the program has had a successful run
they are deleted.  Only the resultant file remains.

>  As the best available hierarchical format these days
> is XML, what we need then is some XML -> XML transformation to get our
> own XML files out of the Atmel ones -- which we can store within our
> CVS.

> For the XML -> XML transformation, I lean towards using XSLT but only
> if it doesn't get too much into our way.  Definately, the converter
> should become part of the AVRDUDE project.

I'll see if I can get XML out of what I already have.

> Why that?  I'd see the natural choice to have them as subhierarchies
> within the same file.

Gives a clear separation of the Atmel derived data from
AVRDude supplied data, was my thinking.