On 5/26/05, Chetan Sahasrabudhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess CSV commons is a very good suggestion.
> This kind of thing is very much required in data staging and processing.
> If java needs to work with commercial products to process huge amount of data
> then I would suggest to start the initiative on developing something for CSV 
> processing.
> 
> On initial thought I can think of following feature list.
> 
> CSV Read
> 1. configurable column selection.
> 2. Hibernate / struts property driven CSV read configuration. (Here I am 
> talking about referencing third party xml elements as target references.)
> 3. xsl driven CSV conversions (CSV to XML, CSV to HTML, CSV to EDI, CSV to 
> *new format*)
> 4. CSVFilter as that for FileFilter
>    column range, column width range, row range

I don't know about a commons component specifically for
reading/writing CSV. This might be better solved by using something
like the CsvJdbc JDBC driver:

http://csvjdbc.sourceforge.net/

Btw, reading CSV via a parser generator like Antlr is rather easy.
There is for instance this sample here:

http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/documentation/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/antlr/antlr.html#ANTLR-Translation-Example

Tom

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