[LAD] Converting specimen banks to petri-foo

[Thomas Mayer]

Hi,

On 28.01.2014 00:26, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:48:29 +0100
> Thomas Mayer <thomas at residuum.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have played around with petri-foo the first time, and I am thinking
>> about switching from specimen to it.
>>
>> Is there a utility to convert specimen banks to petri-foo banks? As
>> far as I can tell, it is a simple XML transformation, and I would try
>> that, if such a utility does not exist.
> 
> No there isn't any utility.
> 
> I haven't worked on Petri-Foo for some time so can't remember exactly
> how it differs... You may run into problems converting, give me a
> shout...
> 

I have just had a look at the XML formats, and I think, that most
properties can be converted with XSL, and additional parameters in
petri-foo should be possible to set to sensible defaults.

I'll start a Github project "when I have time"(TM).

Thomas
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