- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:03:43 -0800
- To: Tandy, Jeremy <jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk>
- Cc: public-csv-wg@w3.org
Hi Jeremy, Thanks for all your work pulling together the use cases and requirements. Do you think it would be useful to cluster the requirements? Looking at them, I can see: * Parsing, eg requirements around recognising other delimiters * Annotation Types, eg R-PrimaryKey * Metadata Discovery, eg R-PackagingOfMultipleTables * Applications, eg R-CsvValidation * Non-Functional, eg R-ZeroEditCompatibility Regarding the requirement R-PackagingOfMultipleTables, I think the requirement is to annotate a group of tables, not necessarily to package them. In other words, a design in which there was a metadata file that pointed to a group of tables hosted elsewhere on the web would seem to satisfy the requirement from PublicationOfNationalStatistics: they wouldn’t necessarily need to be packaged together (eg in a zip). Also, FWIW, I would only take syntactic requirements from published “CSVs”, not from non-text-based formats like Excel. So, for example, I wouldn’t use the ONS Excel files as demonstrating a requirement to have multiple tables within a single CSV file. Cheers, Jeni -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/
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