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Tyler Palsulich commented on TIKA-1438:
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In my opinion, a single multivalued metadata entry is better than a single
metadata entry with a list of comma separated numbers. Users should be able to
decide what they want to do with the array of numbers. See [the
test|https://github.com/apache/tika/blob/trunk/tika-parsers/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/sax/PhoneExtractingContentHandlerTest.java]
for an example.
> PhoneExtractingContentHandler to not add individual MD entries for individual
> phone numbers
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> Key: TIKA-1438
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1438
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
> Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.7
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> Attachments: TIKA-1438.patch
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> Right now we have the PhoneExtractingContentHandler adding phone numbers as
> individual metadata entires.... I feel that this is cumbersome.
> An example would be that we have a webpage with phone numbers on it, we then
> have many fields of the same type with different values!
> I propose we reverse this and have one field with multiple values.
> I would fully understand the current behaviour if we wished to augment the
> phone numbers further by associating dialing code, country, carrier, etc,
> however we are not currently doing this.
> Patch coming for trunk.
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