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Re: Member "Set Lists"
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:23:43 GMT
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Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz wrote:
> > Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> > > In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:55:31PM +0000, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> > > > > I added a column to the set year and it's also given to the
> > > > > downloadable raw data file, so you can at least sort your list by
> > > > > year on your local PC.
> > > > >
> > > > > An advanced sorting mechanism for the web-view will be added
> > > > > later.
> > > >
> > > > Man, I wish I knew you were changing that :) I'll need to update
> > > > peeron to adjust to the new format. I'm guessing anyone else who
> > > > is parsing the data will need to as well.
> > > >
> > > > :)
> > >
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > > sorry, I haven't known. It was about inserting an extra column
> > > between "name" and "pcs." only. Do you know who else could be
> > > affected? I would advice these people via eMail.
> >
> > 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 to handle it is if the columns have labels at
> > the top, scripts could use those labels to find the columns of
> > interest.
> >
> > Frank
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> Do you mean id-attributes on the <td>-tags?
Actually, the <td> tags by themselves could be parsed by a program that
processes the data to find the title of each column.
Frank
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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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