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At 17:43 15/01/2002 +0100, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote: > >-----Message d'origine----- > >De : Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] > > > >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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