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| (...) Another little suggestion - adding new columns at the end will often eliminate the effect of changes like this (and scripts can even be written to explicitly expect the possibility of new columns being added at the end). Of course another way (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Do you mean id-attributes on the <td>-tags? Regards, René (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Actually, the <td> tags by themselves could be parsed by a program that processes the data to find the title of each column. Frank (18 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Added to the Suggestions List! Thanks, Rene (18 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Since there's a text "tab-delimited" version of the list, parsing the HTML to get the data is both wasteful and fragile. As for the idea of using the list titles to adjust for column updates, well, that's not a bad idea :) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I've got a couple scripts that parse that same file, but I never actually parsed the column headers since the column headings were a bit ... odd. They're multi-line and arranged such that they're human-readable, which, when you think about it, (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Good point. Hmm, what if the data was exported in XML... (...) Yea, the nice thing also is that if someone changes a column title, so that your program/script can't find it, your program/script can throw up a warning that apparently the data (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Oooo! We'd just need an accepted standard schema for set list information! 'Course, you'd have to keep the tab-delimited format around for anyone who's importing straight into Excel or something (which is I think how many people keep their (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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