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Re: Member "Set Lists"
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:35:29 GMT
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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.
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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.
Good point. Hmm, what if the data was exported in XML...
> As for the idea of using the list titles to adjust for column updates,
> well, that's not a bad idea :)
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 format has changed. So instead of people
having to notice the data looks odd, they get an error message which they
can report and somebody can react to (fix the data format so it doesn't
break existing programs/scripts, or fix the program/script).
Frank
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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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| (...) 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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