At 17:43 15/01/2002 +0100, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
>  >-----Message d'origine-----
>  >De : Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@[...].edu]
>  >
>  >That's ridiculous. XML absolutely is more self-describing than CSV.
> 
> You point the fact that lots of CSV files don't have column headers. Fine.
> Then let's just create a CSV++ specification that enforce column headers. Et
> voila ! We got a so-called "self-describing" CSV format.

Precisely. CSV++ would then be self describing to the extent that XML is, 
and that CSV isn't.

Actually, CSV++ would also need some equivalent of XML namespaces, in order 
to allow (but not require) applications to draw their column names from a 
vocabulary with well understood meanings.


-- 
Cheers,
John


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