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- Java components to read and write CSV files.
- An interpretation specification.
- Variants on the formatting of the CSV files.
- Various parsing APIs (for example SAX style, DOM style) Potentially SAX/DOM style APIs to handle the parsing.
Initial source
Two basic compatible libraries exist (http://kasparov.skife.org/csv/ by Brian McCallister and http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-csv/ by Henri Yandell), which could be considered (authors willing) as the basis for a CSV library, and Netcetera have offered to donate their internal CSV component, which on paper looks to be far superior.
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- Steven Caswell (stevencaswell@apache.org)
- Brian McCallister (brianm@apache.org)
- Henri Yandell (bayard@apache.org)
- Urs Hardegger (original coder)
- Stefan Rufer (submitter)
Apache sponsor/champion
Sponsor: Jakarta (specifically Jakarta Commons) Champion: Henri Yandell (bayard@apache.org)