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Subject: 
Re: Member "Set Lists"
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Date: 
Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:07:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
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 :)

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, kind of defeats the purposes of being tab-delimited. Perhaps it's a
good idea to change those tab headings to be a single line and tab delimited so
they're easier to parse?

DaveE



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  Re: Member "Set Lists"
 
(...) 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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