To define fields in XML configurations you must use a comma-separated list of names in the fields attribute.
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
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.
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>
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>
