OK so that sounds fine. Similar concern for unparsing though. What happens today if I omit a required occurrence from the infoset, but there is a default value on the element declaration? Hopefully you give an error rather than just continuing. Regards Steve Hanson IBM Hybrid Integration, Hursley, UK Architect, IBM DFDL Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group smh@uk.ibm.com tel:+44-1962-815848 mob:+44-7717-378890 Note: I work Tuesday to Friday From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> Cc: DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg@ogf.org> Date: 22/11/2019 19:43 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DFDL-WG] New Experimental Feature document: dfdl:emptyElementParsePolcy Actually daffodil doesn't insert defaults when parsing, it creates the element, having no value, and then on-demand, when accessed, the value is pulled from where we save it in the static runtime data structures, and is saved as the element's value. This can happen when an expression refers to the element, or when the data set is subsequently output as some other representation like JSON or XML. So we *are* somehow doing defaults when parsing. Just not at the time the parser traverses the element. For all intents and purposes we are doing defaulting during parsing. Not unparsing yet though. Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com Please note: Contributions to the DFDL Workgroup's email discussions are subject to the OGF Intellectual Property Policy On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:57 AM Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> wrote: Mike The new document looks good, the descriptions of the property values are clear and simple. One comment of yours I need to follow up though. You said: " Bug in this doc. Daffodil is not inserting defaults here (doesn’t implement default insertion when parsing.) Fixed with new language you suggested. " Are you saying that if Daffodil parses an occurrence and determines it has the empty rep, and there is a default value on the element declaration, that the default value is not used? If so then what happens? Further, if you subsequently change Daffodil so it does use the default value, you have silently changed parsing behaviour in an incompatible way. IBM DFDL similarly does not use default values when parsing, but to prevent a future incompatible behaviour change, if we find a zero-length occurrence and there is a default value, we throw a runtime SDE. Regards Steve Hanson IBM Hybrid Integration, Hursley, UK Architect, IBM DFDL Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group smh@uk.ibm.com tel:+44-1962-815848 mob:+44-7717-378890 Note: I work Tuesday to Friday From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> Cc: DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg@ogf.org> Date: 16/10/2019 19:19 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DFDL-WG] New Experimental Feature document: dfdl:emptyElementParsePolcy I have revised this per your comments, and uploaded a new revision. Link: https://redmine.ogf.org/dmsf_files/13596?download= Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com Please note: Contributions to the DFDL Workgroup's email discussions are subject to the OGF Intellectual Property Policy On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:23 PM Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> wrote: Mike Some significant comments on this. Regards Steve Hanson IBM Hybrid Integration, Hursley, UK Architect, IBM DFDL Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group smh@uk.ibm.com tel:+44-1962-815848 mob:+44-7717-378890 Note: I work Tuesday to Friday From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg@ogf.org> Date: 14/10/2019 19:58 Subject: [EXTERNAL] [DFDL-WG] New Experimental Feature document: dfdl:emptyElementParsePolcy Sent by: "dfdl-wg" <dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org> Per one of our trackers I uploaded an "official" document to describe this experimental feature. gwde-dfdl-experience-7-emptyElementParsePolicy.docx This describes the feature as we have implemented it in Daffodil. There has been some discussion on this proposal already, particularly on whether the enum values for the property are appropriately chosen so that they clearly identify the different behaviors. Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com Please note: Contributions to the DFDL Workgroup's email discussions are subject to the OGF Intellectual Property Policy -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg@ogf.org https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU