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Posted to commits@commons.apache.org by br...@apache.org on 2013/09/13 10:23:27 UTC

svn commit: r1522810 - /commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java

Author: britter
Date: Fri Sep 13 08:23:26 2013
New Revision: 1522810

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1522810
Log:
Add reference to RFC 4180

Modified:
    commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java

Modified: commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java?rev=1522810&r1=1522809&r2=1522810&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java (original)
+++ commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java Fri Sep 13 08:23:26 2013
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@
 /**
  * Apache Commons CSV Format Support.
  *
- * <p>CSV (or its dialects) are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or
- *    manual data-imports. CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes
- *    "Character Separated Values") but this simple abbreviation leads to more
- *    confusion than definitions.</p>
+ * <p>CSV are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or manual data-imports.
+ *    CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes "Character Separated
+ *    Values"). The CSV data format is defined in
+ *    <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" target="_blank">RFC 4180</a>
+ *    but many dialects exist.</p>
  *
  * <p>Common to all file dialects is its basic structure: The CSV data-format
  *    is record oriented, whereas each record starts on a new textual line. A