On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:12:39PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:35 +0200, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> > After some discussion with rooneg on IRC, I'm going to change the format so
> > that newlines separate fields instead of pipes and the sequence "\f\n"
> > (control-l newline) will terminate each record.
>
> What if a field consists of just "\f"?
>
> I can live with the idea, but instead of trying to make up a
> distinguished terminator field value, you might want to start each field
> with a field marker charater (say, a space) and then make the terminator
> line blank. It's some extra bytes, but it's more general.
>
> (To the person who suggested using the number fields: I assume we want
> the capability of adding fields in the future. So we can't rely on the
> number of fields being constant.)
>
I hate to muddy the water, but if we're going to do that, then
maybe it would make sense to do something like
Nfoo.xml
R19127
T2006-04-14T04:13:41.000000Z
Ajrandom
Kfile
...more attributes...
X
This would make the format easy-ish for both computers and humans
(especially COBOL programmers).
--ben
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