Posted by Bryan Oakley on 11/27/06 21:48

comp.lang.tcl wrote:
>
> BTW I use XML and not CSV because I would have to rewrite too much of
> the site to handle CSV instead of XML, and BTW did I mention that I
> have no idea how to handle CSV via TCL in the first place, much less
> XML?

The one thing CSV has over XML is a greatly (*greatly*) reduced learning
curve, and a readily available pure tcl tool for parsing it. (CSV stands
for Comma Separated Values and is just like what it sounds)

> I think that you may have to understand that I am not exactly on the
> same learning curve with the rest of comp.lang.tcl, apparently a gaggle
> of very seasoned engineers with multiple TCL experience, and I'm this
> web guy that has ADD. I'm learning as best as I can, but Cameron,
> please, you're making me drink from a firehose here!

Consider CSV to be a dixie-cup compared to the firehose that is XML.

For that matter, though, if you control the data you might want to
consider storing the data as a Tcl list in the first place. Then you
don't have to parse it at all.

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