----- "Ken McDonell" <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 04:09 +1000, nathans@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > ...
> What I was trying to develop was a totally data driven solution for a
> particular input data format, e.g. a spreadsheet so that you could
> take
> the input data file, create a config file and run a shipped generic
> (Perl) application.
>
> I think this may still be possible but it requires one more section
> of
> metadata to map the metric-instance pairs onto the sequence of data
> items in each record of the data set (so the column ->
> metric-instance
> pair mapping for a spreadsheet).
>
> If I was to do this, I'd probably make the config file syntax XML
> (does that seem sensible to others?).
XML is OK by me, only issue is wrt implementation - will we need to
pull in an external library? (and is it available on all platforms
we need it on, etc?)
cheers.
--
Nathan
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