Re: UCD in XML or in CSV? (is: UCD data consumption)

On Sun, Sep 02 2018 at 4:16 +0200,

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> So you can understand that I’m not unaware of the complexity of UCD. Though
> I don’t think that this could be an argument for not publishing a medium-size
> CSV file with scalar values listed as in UnicodeData.txt.

For a non-programmer like me CVS is much more convenient form than XML -
I can use it not only with a spreadsheet, but also import directly into
a database and analyse with various queries. XML is politically correct,
but practically almost unusable without a specialised parser.

On Sat, Sep 01 2018 at 15:15 +0200, unicode_at_unicode.org writes:
> On 31/08/18 10:47 Manuel Strehl via Unicode wrote:
>>
>> To handle the UCD XML file a streaming parser like Expat is necessary.
>
> Thanks for the tip. However for my needs, Expat looks like overkill, and I’m
> looking out for a much simpler standalone tool, just converting XML to CSV.

I think CSV and XML can coexist peacefully, we just need an open source
round-trip converter.

Last but not least, let me remind that the thread was started by a
question what is the most convenient way to describe the properties of
PUA characters.

Best regards

Janusz

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