Re: A little database

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
:  However, anyone with
: Office (or any competing productivity suite) has numerous tools to
: deal with CSV, 

The downside of MS's CSV handling is that the producer of CSVs
must follow their notion os CSV very closely. One must not put
spaces after the C, one should remember what happens if the
text indicating character appears in the original text of a
column, one must make sure that the option of combining two adjecent
C into one isn't turned on, there is no easy way to indicate
the data format of some text, other than interactively adjust
settings, afaics...

Some of these problems go away with XML, and it is almost trivial
to produce CSVs from XML using XSLTs. XML Libraries exist on any
recent Windows(TM) OS.

-- georg
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