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2.5. Defining Configurations

  1. To define fields in XML configurations you must use a comma-separated list of names in the fields attribute.
  2. Make sure the field names follow the same naming rules as XML element names:
    • they can contain letters, numbers, and other characters
    • they cannot start with a number or punctuation character
    • they cannot start with the letters xml (or XML or Xml, etc)
    • they cannot contain spaces
  4. Set the rootElementName and recordElementName attributes so you can modify the csv-set and csv-record element names. The same rules apply for these names.
  5. You can define string manipulation functions on a per-field basis. These functions are executed before the data is converted into SAX events. Define them after the field name, separating the two with a question mark: 
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" xmlns:csv="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/csv-1.2.xsd">
 
    <csv:reader fields="lastname?trim.capitalize,country?upper_case" />
 
</smooks-resource-list>
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  6. To get Smooks to ignore fields in a CSV record, you must specify the $ignore$ token as the field's configuration value. Specify the number of fields to be ignored simply by following the $ignore$ token with a number (so use $ignore$3 to ignore the next three fields.) Use $ignore$+ to ignore all of the fields to the end of the CSV record. 
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" xmlns:csv="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/csv-1.2.xsd">
 
    <csv:reader fields="firstname,$ignore$2,age,$ignore$+" />
 
</smooks-resource-list>
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