Provider: | PyXMCDA |
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Version: | 2.0 |
Transforms a file containing alternatives values from a comma-separated values (CSV) file to two XMCDA compliant files, containing the corresponding alternatives ids and their alternativesValues.
(For outputs, see below)
The alternatives and their alternatives values as a CSV file. The first line is made of two cells, the first one being empty, and the second one will be the content of the attribute “mcdaConcept” in the tag “<alternativesValues>”, if supplied. The following lines are made of at least two cells, with the first cell being an alternative’ id (and name, see below), and the remaining cells their associated values.
Example:
,ranks
a1 (eggs),1,2,3,4,5
a2 (spam),3.14159
a3 (parrot),int:0xDEAD
The first column contains the alternatives’ ids. Additionally, the alternatives’ names are also extracted when the cells are formatted like id (name). Set the parameter “First column” to “id” to deactivate the extraction of alternatives’ names.
By default the values are considered as float numbers. This can be changed using the parameter “Default content”. It is possible to specify the type of a value by prepending it with a prefix:
Example:
,values
a1,float:1.0
a2,integer:2
a3,3.03
a4,string:a label
a4b,string:another label
a5,na:content ignored for N/A
a6,boolean:1
Parameters of the method
Parameter values can be defined via the GUI or the XMCDA file, by default via GUI.
Name: CSV delimiter
Indicates the delimiter to use. Leave blank for auto-detection. It is especially handful when the auto-detection fails to determine the csv delimiter.
Name: Default content
.
Name: First column
Content of the first column.
Tag: programParameters
Code:
<programParameters>
<parameter id="csv_delimiter">
<values>
<value>
<label>%1</label>
</value>
</values>
</parameter>
<parameter id="default_prefix">
<values>
<value>
<label>%2</label>
</value>
</values>
</parameter>
<parameter id="name_in_id">
<values>
<value>
<boolean>%3</boolean>
</value>
</values>
</parameter>
</programParameters>
The equivalent alternatives ids.
The equivalent alternatives values.
Status messages.
For further technical details on the web service underlying this program, have a look at its documentation here.