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

On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:24:06AM +0200, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote:
> 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.

And for a programmer, XML is outright insane. You need a complex library to
do so, and those fail KISS so badly that you have a CVE roughly yearly.
On the other hand, writing a parser for current headerless ;-separated data
completely from scratch is just:

cut -d';' -f 1,6 </usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
or:
(split/;/)[0,5]

JSON is somewhat better, but still needs drastically more effort.
CSV (especially with no escapes) is trivial to handle.

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