Re: [Gpsbabel-code] tcx format question

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

Welcome.

read garmin's tcx format.  The answer is no (can
> only write tcx), but some discussion threads
> came up in a google search that suggested someone
> might be working on it.  Is this the case?  I
>

I don't know of anyone actively working on it.


1.  I could not get the documentation to build
> because of a trivial typo in an xml file. Here
>

That was fixed earlier today, actually.   My fault. :-)

>
> 2.  It has always annoyed me that when transforming tracks
> to routes, the generated route gets a <desc> tag but not
> a <name> tag.  Here is a patch to correct that:
>

Not sure why you'd want this data just duplicated.   If we have a writer
that's looking in name when it should be looking in desc (or vice versa)
or we need to add a fallback if one or the other is blank, we should
probably
fix it there.


+                       xasprintf(&current_rte->rte_name, "%s",
> trk->rte_name); /* name the


Oh, and if we do get to this point, that's "xstrdup"  as we're not
formatting the string, we're just allocating/copying it.