Changes between Version 51 and Version 52 of BluePrint/Importer

Timestamp:

01/23/11 08:27:41 (14 years ago)

Author:

Pat Tressel

Comment:

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BluePrint/Importer

@@ -205 +205 @@
 ==== Observed file formats and sample data: ====
 
-
 - Outer join has been observed "in the wild", e.g. the
   [http://haiti.resource-finder.appspot.com/export?subject_type=hospital Google hospital data for Brazil]
@@ -243 +242 @@
 importer is doing.//
 
-There are two main categories of representation:
+There are two main categories of specification:
 
 - Formatting, such as which of the file layouts is used, what the separator character
   is, how the text is escaped, which cells are structured...  This is the "parsing"
-  aspect of the representation.
+  aspect of the specification.
 
 - The actual mapping of the source schema to our schema, that is, once we have their
@@ -295 +294 @@
 ==== File format specification: ====
 
+- File paths.
+
+- One table per file, or concatenated tables, or a flat outer-join file?
+
+- Character set?
+
+- For concatenated tables, what is the table separator?
+
+- Is there a row with column names in the file, or are column names supplied
+  separately?
+
+- Column separator? (Popular separators other than commas are tabs, semicolons,
+  and vertical bars.) Or are columns specified by width?
+
+- Comment character? or rows to ignore? (Some files have titles or explanatory
+  comments included in the file.)
+
+- String quote characters?
+
+- Format of embedded lists, i.e. are they quoted? what is the separator?
+
+- Format of embedded objects?
+
+- Are there links to other documents that should be uploaded? and how are they
+  distinguished from URLs that are just data?
+
 ==== Schema mapping specification: ====