Changes between Version 51 and Version 52 of BluePrint/Importer


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Timestamp:
01/23/11 08:27:41 (12 years ago)
Author:
Pat Tressel
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    v51 v52  
    205205==== Observed file formats and sample data: ====
    206206
    207 
    208207- Outer join has been observed "in the wild", e.g. the
    209208  [http://haiti.resource-finder.appspot.com/export?subject_type=hospital Google hospital data for Brazil]
     
    243242importer is doing.//
    244243
    245 There are two main categories of representation:
     244There are two main categories of specification:
    246245
    247246- Formatting, such as which of the file layouts is used, what the separator character
    248247  is, how the text is escaped, which cells are structured...  This is the "parsing"
    249   aspect of the representation.
     248  aspect of the specification.
    250249
    251250- The actual mapping of the source schema to our schema, that is, once we have their
     
    295294==== File format specification: ====
    296295
     296- File paths.
     297
     298- One table per file, or concatenated tables, or a flat outer-join file?
     299
     300- Character set?
     301
     302- For concatenated tables, what is the table separator?
     303
     304- Is there a row with column names in the file, or are column names supplied
     305  separately?
     306
     307- Column separator? (Popular separators other than commas are tabs, semicolons,
     308  and vertical bars.) Or are columns specified by width?
     309
     310- Comment character? or rows to ignore? (Some files have titles or explanatory
     311  comments included in the file.)
     312
     313- String quote characters?
     314
     315- Format of embedded lists, i.e. are they quoted? what is the separator?
     316
     317- Format of embedded objects?
     318
     319- Are there links to other documents that should be uploaded? and how are they
     320  distinguished from URLs that are just data?
     321
    297322==== Schema mapping specification: ====
    298323