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Re: Member "Set Lists"
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:57:05 GMT
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:23:43AM +0000, Frank Filz wrote:
> Actually, the <td> tags by themselves could be parsed by a program
> that processes the data to find the title of each column.
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 :)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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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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| (...) 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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