Design principles

The following principles govern how dctap processes a CSV file. Comments are welcome in the Github issue tracker.

• Empty rows are ignored.
• Keywords are normalized to lowercase.
• The sequence of elements is normalized.
• Non-DCTAP elements are ignored unless configured.
• DCTAP elements are not repeatable.
• Some variants of element names are tolerated.
• Some element names are not allowed.
• Shapes may be declared on separate rows.
• Shape elements are set just once.
• Elements belong either to shapes or to statement templates, not both.