Hi,

On 10/19/07, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the case of CSV, for example, we might want to say "this is CSV,
> which is also plain text", so that if Tika has a CSV specific parser
> it uses it, and if not it uses a plain text parser.

The MIME framework in Tika already supports the concept of type
inheritance, and we could fairly easily make AutoDetectParser (or
anything similar) walk up the type hierarchy until it finds a parser
that can handle the content.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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