Re: [Docutils-users] OT: DSV vs CSV

[Paul T. <pau...@gm...>]

On 10/17/11 6:05 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
>> "This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited."
> That is just the nature of an RFC:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
>
> As I said, this is the **closest** there is to a standard:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#page-2  (point 4)

Which of course, does not prove your point. Someone proposed a standard, 
that has not been accepted, that no one else accepts. The very Wiki 
entry to linked me to contradicted what you claimed. Do you really think 
Python, OpenOffice, and MS all got this wrong?
>
>
>> So know what do we call files delimited by "|" or "a"--BSV (Bar Separated Values) and ASV (A Separated Values)?
> DSV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter-separated_values
>
>
No one refers to such files as DSV. Nor is it necessary to use just 
comas. If many of your fields contain comas, you wouldn't want to, and 
the files are just as readable and parsable.

So to repeat my point, no, I didn't mean "space delimited." I meant CSV, 
using it the way everyone else does.

Paul