 | | Re: Member "Set Lists" —Dan Boger
| | | | (...) 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)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Member "Set Lists" —David Eaton
| | | | | | (...) 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)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Member "Set Lists" —Frank Filz
| | | | | (...) 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)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Member "Set Lists" —David Eaton
| | | | | (...) 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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