Hi,

We are currently working on supporting newVariableInstance in DFDL4S,

so I'd like attend the next conference call and tune in on this discussion.

Can anyone help me, and pointing me to the next call(s) schedule/coordinates?

I've noticed that there was a move to Github, and I couldn't locate

this information.

--Marcos

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:26 PM Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
wrote:

>

> For our next conference call, I said I would walk through the Apache
Daffodil newVariableInstance feature, and how for unparsing we had to add
a direction property to variables so they can be evaluated with forward
referencing for unparsing.

>

> The code I'd like to discuss is here:

>

> 
https://github.com/DFDLSchemas/PCAP/blob/cb9ee66aa565d982f01130918bcd785def51b58d/src/main/resources/com/tresys/pcap/xsd/pcap.dfdl.xsd

>

> The defineVariable that is the best motivating example is defined
at line 104, and is used at line 213. This is a simple common-subexpression
elimination, but it is used to avoid redundant calls to dfdl:valueLength
in the dfdl:outputValueCalc of the stored length field named InclLen.

>

> There is a second example of using newVariableInstance at unparse
time in this schema also, with the variable definitions starting at line
115, and usage in the group defined starting at line 320. This usage is
far more complex, and in hindsight I think a DFDL parse of PCAP data should
not be creating IP addresses in the Infoset that look like "1.2.3.4",
because it requires all this complexity to unparse from that back to the
binary representation. However, it is a good exercise in how the newVariableInstance
feature works.

>

> -mikeb

>

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