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Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Commons-csv or not?
From: Simon Kitching <simon@ecnetwork.co.nz>
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Date: 26 Jun 2003 19:04:51 +1200
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Hmm .. an "import-stuff-into-xml" project? Interesting...

I have in fact written exactly this for my current employer, for a
(continuously expanding) series of formats. We then apply stylesheets to
the results, for various purposes.

I doubt I could contribute any code, but can definitely confirm that I
would have used such a library if it had existed about a year ago when I
started (and had been sufficiently flexible/complete)!

I could also contribute a collection of weird and wonderful formats as
invented by our clients :-)

Here's a few possible formats in addition to csv:
* ASN.1
* windows .ini files
* java .properties files
* EDIFACT
* apache-httpd .conf format :-)

And here's some potential "competitors", which also import data into xml
formats:
* Microsoft Biztalk
* IBM Websphere Business Integration

Note that I'm not pushing for or against the existence of this project.
Just had some thoughts to toss into the discussion....

Cheers,

Simon


On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 18:43, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> On 25.06.2003 19:59:19 Joe Germuska wrote:
> > A CSV project seems a bit too narrowly focused.
> 
> I agree. IMHO the focus should be on any type of legacy, structured
> ASCII files containing some notion of "record". It's very interesting to
> have code around to easily convert such files to XML (SAX-Events), for
> example.
> 
> > I guess I'd think it belongs in IO, of all the choices Henri 
> > suggested.  In a sense you could associate it with Digester, but 
> > that's probably not really the best place for it.
> 
> Having said the above, I think it doesn't belong neither to IO, nor to
> Codec. I think it's a separate little project. The Digester idea is
> interesting, but I agree.
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki
> 
> 
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