Open mhGLEIF opened 5 years ago
Testing is always row-by-row, so yes a partially empty column would be fine - @optional is effectively equivalent to adding "or empty" to your column test.
I see if I can think of some clearer wording.
Thanks for clarifying. So "column" is shorthand for "the cell in this column in this row". As I surmised.
Another trivial clarification, I'm afraid 🙁
I am using
@optional
currently in a csvs to mean a column may hold one ofIs that the intended meaning? It seems to be from the way the validator works?
It's not totally clear to me from the doc if a partially empty column is OK:
http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-schema/csv-schema-1.1.html#column-definitions-examples
Is there a different directive for this?