From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,218b3332778031f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-25 11:13:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A little database Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3dd49c15$0$303$bed64819@news.gradwell.net> <4519e058.0211151348.4e882a74@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0211180701.2922d058@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1038251586 4634 134.91.1.34 (25 Nov 2002 19:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31216 Date: 2002-11-25T19:13:06+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison 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 --- Microsoft Windows--a fresh perspective on information hiding