Export ALL to a CSV?

[frederf]

I (as a programmer) greatly prefer XML. Many programming languages can consume XML natively, and allow you to easily get to the data that you need.

Fred

[Paternoster]

I (as a programmer) greatly prefer XML. Many programming languages can consume XML natively, and allow you to easily get to the data that you need.

Fred

That's perfectly fine for me if you do, but please don't expect everybody else to share that liking.

I (as a programmer) greatly prefer CSV, because it is much less redundant, much more efficient, and I can easily use it with any database (they either import it natively or with some simple helper), (web-)programming language (like perl) and a myriad of tools (like awk) that I often work with and that are more than appropriate to use with the data exported from OCD. And if I'd ever be tempted to import this data into any kind of office application, I can also do that with CSV, even with all that ms crap (god forbid!) ...

So I really don't understand, why I should waste my resources or time with anything less reasonable. But the world is flat, isn't it?

-pn

[frederf]

That's perfectly fine for me if you do, but please don't expect everybody else to share that liking.

I certainly wasn't trying to suggest any superiority ;O)

They both have their merits.

I haven't looked but I would bet that there are utilities that would convert between CSV and XML. So given one you could convert to the other.

And I do agree that if you are going to provide an export of the data that it should be complete. You just can't predict what your users are going to want to do with that data.

Fred