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thptqg/parser
tiennm99 9710524ced fix(ci): require the Go release that patches encoding/xml
govulncheck fails the pipeline on GO-2026-6088: encoding/xml decodes
without a recursion depth guard, reachable from excelize's OpenFile,
GetRows and GetSheetList and from buildCRFixups directly. The parser is
fed spreadsheets downloaded over the network by the crawler, so the path
is real.

Raising the go directive to 1.26.6 in all three modules puts the fix
below every build rather than leaving it to whichever patch release the
runner happens to install.

govulncheck is clean on all three modules, and every suite passes on the
new toolchain — including the reader fidelity sweep, which matters here
because buildCRFixups depends on how encoding/xml normalises line endings.
2026-08-14 10:44:26 +07:00
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parser

Reads the .xls/.xlsx source spreadsheets in data/ and writes one SQLite database per dataset.

go -C parser build -o bin/xlsxread ./cmd/xlsxread   # compile
go -C parser test ./...                             # unit tests + the reader-fidelity suite
xlsxread build --schema parser/configs/<id>.yml --input data/<id> --output <db>
xlsxread audit --schema parser/configs/<id>.yml --input data/<id> --db <db>

This stage only produces a database. Verifying it against the expected row count, compressing it and publishing it belong to assembler/, which compiles this binary and drives it per dataset:

go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble db

Layout

path role
internal/reader spreadsheet reading; the only place that knows about file formats
internal/ingest dataset policy — sheet selection, header skipping, blank rows, the build loop, and the 2016 per-sheet layout detection
internal/transform ToAscii, score-regex parsing, row validation
internal/schema the canonical 22-column table: DDL, INSERT, subject regexes
internal/config per-dataset YAML parse rules
internal/writer SQLite lifecycle and the stats block
internal/audit source-vs-database SBD comparison

The reader deliberately knows nothing about datasets: it reports every sheet and every row verbatim. All policy lives in ingest. That split is what made the reader independently verifiable against a hash oracle.

Behaviour worth knowing

  • ToAscii strips combining marks in the literal range U+0300–U+036F rather than by Unicode category. That covers every Vietnamese diacritic and must stay identical to toAscii in web/src/App.jsx, or accent-insensitive search misses rows.
  • Gender is normalised to Nam/Nữ; the Cần Thơ files write 0/1 instead and are translated. Anything else becomes NULL.
  • A score of 0 is a real score — the candidate sat the paper and scored nothing — and is stored, not dropped.
  • Birth dates are stored as dd/mm/yyyy. The Cần Thơ files' compact ddmmyy is expanded; the century is always 19xx, since a 2016 candidate born later would have sat the exam under age.

This code began as a port of a Rust crate that occupied the same path, and was gated on a field-by-field comparison against it. That comparison is over: correctness against the source spreadsheets decides behaviour now, not agreement with the old implementation. assemble verify is the comparator that gated it, and still compares any two sets of built databases.

Verification

testdata/reader-fidelity-hashes.tsv holds a SHA-256 per input file over a canonical dump of every cell of every sheet. It is frozen: the tool that produced it no longer exists, so it cannot be regenerated. It still fails if any single cell of any input file reads differently, which is what makes it useful — cell rendering and sheet geometry are settled, and a change there is a regression until proven otherwise. Dataset policy lives in ingest, so fixing a layout never touches it.

A mismatch names the file but not the cell. cmd/dumpcells prints the stream the hash is taken over, so two runs can be diffed:

go -C parser run ./cmd/dumpcells ../data/2017/an-giang.xls out.tsv

The assembler refuses to publish a database whose row count does not match the known figure, or whose artifact is under 90% of its usual size.