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Add ability create initial XTCE documents #64

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@greglucas

It would be useful to provide utilities to create XTCE documents from other formats. For example, from various csv / spreadsheet definitions. This would enable XTCE to be "the" format we accept, and provide the ability to move between the various formats outside of the parsing logic which can always be XTCE-based.

On IMAP, we have an Excel -> XTCE CLI tool that works for that mission's packet definitions.
https://github.com/IMAP-Science-Operations-Center/imap_processing/blob/dev/imap_processing/ccsds/excel_to_xtce.py

We could bring this functionality over to space_packet_parser for others to use, and potentially add more supported formats like our cubesat missions as well.

Questions:

  • Is this even a good idea, or should we try to load the definitions directly from what the users provide (this would add (potentially optional) dependencies on excel readers etc...)
  • Do we want a CLI tool for this? (Excel -> XTCE, csv -> XTCE, ...)

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