On 9/5/2014 6:38 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
Le 5-sept.-2014 à 9:13, mofo syne <[email protected]> a écrit :
Btw csv is a pretty loose standard. So the above csv should work still
for many csv parsers.
Which just add another problem. If people come to expect CSV to work for
Markdown tables, they'll copy-paste their CSV documents generated by their
spreadsheet application and expect it to work, which it won't because it just
supports a small subset of CSV that isn't what most application generate. Then
I'll get a deluge of bug reports about this or that getting mangled and all
those bugs be unfixable because CSV is a too loose standard to parse it
reliably. Better stay away from CSV.
I agree with this.
There is an informal standard: RFC 4180, "Common Format and MIME Type
for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files"
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180>. It is informal because Section 2
describes the way most people do it, rather than prescribing rigid
adherence.
If you want to go CSV -> Markdown, your best bet is to use a CSV -> HTML
processor, and then insert the HTML into the Markdown. Unambiguous.
Problem solved.
Markdown tables should be as simple as possible...and should look like
the desired HTML output, in plain text e-mail. For this purpose, the
pipe format works all right.
-Sean
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