vdexcsv

Converts CSV files to IMS VDEX XML (Vocabulary Definition Exchange Format)

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Converter from CSV file to a multilingual IMS VDEX voacabulary XML file.

VDEX is a very good standardized format for multilingual vocabularies, ontologies, etc. It just sucks to create its XML manually. There is poor editor support. But everybody has Excel, well, but almost everybody knows how to create tables. So let the user create a sheet with a column of keys for each term and for each language a column with the translated terms value.

A flat vocabulary

key	english	german	italian
k01	ant	Ameise	formica
k02	bee	Biene	ape
k03	wasp	Wespe	vespa
k04	hornet	Hornisse	calabrone

As a csv this looks like:

"key";"english";"german";"italian"
"k01";"ant";"Ameise";"formica"
"k02";"bee";"Biene";"ape"
"k03";"wasp";"Wespe";"vespa"
"k04";"hornet";"Hornisse";"calabrone"

After running through csv2vdex, called like so:

csv2vdex insects 'insects,Insekten,insetto' \
         insects.csv insects.xml --languages en,de,it --startrow 1

This results it such a VDEX XML:

<vocabulary xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsvdex_v1p0" orderSignificant="true">
  <vocabIdentifier>insects</vocabIdentifier>
  <vocabName>
    <langstring language="en">insects</langstring>
    <langstring language="de">Insekten</langstring>
    <langstring language="it">insetto</langstring>
  </vocabName>
  <term>
    <termIdentifier>k01</termIdentifier>
    <caption>
      <langstring language="en">ant</langstring>
      <langstring language="de">Ameise</langstring>
      <langstring language="it">formica</langstring>
    </caption>
  </term>
  <term>
    <termIdentifier>k02</termIdentifier>
    <caption>
      <langstring language="en">bee</langstring>
      <langstring language="de">Biene</langstring>
      <langstring language="it">ape</langstring>
    </caption>
  </term>
  <term>
    <termIdentifier>k03</termIdentifier>
    <caption>
      <langstring language="en">wasp</langstring>
      <langstring language="de">Wespe</langstring>
      <langstring language="it">vespa</langstring>
    </caption>
  </term>
  <term>
    <termIdentifier>k04</termIdentifier>
    <caption>
      <langstring language="en">hornet</langstring>
      <langstring language="de">Hornisse</langstring>
      <langstring language="it">calabrone</langstring>
    </caption>
  </term>
</vocabulary>

A tree vocabulary

If we want to have a tree-like vocabulary, the key is used to define the level. Here a dot is used as delimiter.

key	term value
nwe	North-west of Europe
nwe.1	iberica
nwe.2	intermissa
nwe.3	lihzeni
nwe.4	mellifera
nwe.5	sahariensis
swe	South-west of Europe
swe.1	carnica
swe.2	cecropia
swe.3	ligustica
swe.4	macedonica
swe.5	ruttneri
swe.6	sicula

As a CSV it looks like:

"key";"term value"
"nwe";"North-west of Europe"
"nwe.1";"A. m. iberica"
"nwe.2";"A. m. intermissa"
"nwe.3";"A. m. lihzeni"
"nwe.4";"A. m. mellifera"
"nwe.5";"A. m. sahariensis"
"swe";"South-west of Europe"
"swe.1";"A. m. carnica"
"swe.2";"A. m. cecropia"
"swe.3";"A. m. ligustica"
"swe.4";"A. m. macedonica"
"swe.5";"A. m. ruttneri"
"swe.6";"A. m. sicula"

After running through csv2vdex, called like so:

csv2vdex beeeurope 'European Honey Bees' bees.csv bees.xml -s 1

The result is:

<vocabulary xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsvdex_v1p0" orderSignificant="true">
  <vocabIdentifier>beeeurope</vocabIdentifier>
  <vocabName>
    <langstring language="en">European Honey Bees</langstring>
  </vocabName>
  <term>
    <termIdentifier>nwe</termIdentifier>
    <caption>
      <langstring language="en">North-west of Europe</langstring>
    </caption>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>nwe.1</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. iberica</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>nwe.2</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. intermissa</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>nwe.3</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. lihzeni</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>nwe.4</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. mellifera</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>nwe.5</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. sahariensis</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
  </term>
  <term>
    <termIdentifier>swe</termIdentifier>
    <caption>
      <langstring language="en">South-west of Europe</langstring>
    </caption>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>swe.1</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. carnica</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
   <term>
      <termIdentifier>swe.2</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. cecropia</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>swe.3</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. ligustica</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>swe.4</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. macedonica</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>swe.5</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. ruttneri</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
    <term>
      <termIdentifier>swe.6</termIdentifier>
      <caption>
        <langstring language="en">A. m. sicula</langstring>
      </caption>
    </term>
  </term>
</vocabulary>

Help Text

usage: csv2vdex [-h] [--languages [LANGUAGES]] [--startrow [STARTROW]]
                [--keycolumn [KEYCOLUMN]] [--startcolumn [STARTCOLUMN]]
                [--ordered [ORDERED]] [--dialect [DIALECT]]
                [--csvdelimiter [CSVDELIMITER]]
                [--treedelimiter [TREEDELIMITER]]
                id name source target

Converts CSV files to VDEX XML

positional arguments:
  id                    unique identifier of vocabulary
  name                  Human readable name of vocabulary. If more than one
                        language is given separate each langstring by a colon
                        and provide same order as argument --languages
  source                CSV file to read from
  target                XML target file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --languages [LANGUAGES], -l [LANGUAGES]
                        Comma separated list of ISO-language codes. Default:
                        en
  --startrow [STARTROW], -r [STARTROW]
                        number of row in CSV file where to begin reading,
                        starts with 0, default 0.
  --keycolumn [KEYCOLUMN], -k [KEYCOLUMN]
                        number of column with the keys of the vocabulary,
                        start with 0, default 0.
  --startcolumn [STARTCOLUMN], -s [STARTCOLUMN]
                        number of column with the first langstring of the
                        vocabulary. It assume n + number languages of columns
                        after this, starts counting with 0, default 1.
  --ordered [ORDERED], -o [ORDERED]
                        Wether vocabulary is ordered or not, Default: True
  --dialect [DIALECT]   CSV dialect, default excel.
  --csvdelimiter [CSVDELIMITER]
                        CSV delimiter of the source file, default colon.
  --treedelimiter [TREEDELIMITER]
                        Delimiter used to split the key the vocabulary into a
                        path to determine the position in the tree, default
                        dot.

Source Code

The sources are in a GIT DVCS with its main branches at github.

We’d be happy to see many forks and pull-requests to make vdexcsv even better.

Contributors

Jens W. Klein <jens@bluedynamics.com>
Peter Holzer <hpeter@agitator.com>

History

1.0.1

now an egg with .rst [jensens, 2011-06-21]

1.0

made it work [jensens, 2011-06-06]

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