Nis Jørgensen wrote: > Neil Cerutti skrev: > > >> Mostly you can use the default 'excel' dialect and be quite >> happy, since Excel is the main reason anybody still cares about >> this unecessarily hard to parse (it requires more than one >> character of lookahead for no reason except bad design) data >> format. >> > > I knew there had to be a reason why everyone is using xml these days ... > > Nis > Are you serious? You want to cram tabular data in some tree-oriented data format? Now THAT is evangelism. Why is it a bad desing choice to seperate values by a specific delimiter, thus emulating a tabular arrangement? I really don't get it. Thats the natural format for tabular data. Period.
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