For discussion on today's WG call - see agenda. Regards Steve Hanson Programming Model Architect, WebSphere Message Brokers, OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair, Hursley, UK, Internet: smh@uk.ibm.com, Phone (+44)/(0) 1962-815848 ----- Forwarded by Steve Hanson/UK/IBM on 11/11/2009 10:53 ----- From: Steve Hanson/UK/IBM To: Suman Kalia/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA Cc: Alan Powell/UK/IBM@IBMGB, Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> Date: 05/11/2009 11:46 Subject: Re: Scoping : dfdl:defineFormat Hi Suman - you have correctly captured the behaviour in both X and Y cases. Regards Steve Hanson Programming Model Architect, WebSphere Message Brokers, OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair, Hursley, UK, Internet: smh@uk.ibm.com, Phone (+44)/(0) 1962-815848 From: Suman Kalia/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA To: Alan Powell/UK/IBM@IBMGB, Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>, Steve Hanson/UK/IBM@IBMGB Date: 05/11/2009 04:21 Subject: Scoping : dfdl:defineFormat Reference discussion this morning, attached is an example that captures scoping rule for dfdl:format based on my understanding.. Please send your comments / corrections etc .. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- Base defineFormat contains 3 dfdl:format -> one without selector and 2 with selectors --> <dfdl:defineFormat name="fmtX" xmlns:dfdl="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/ DFDL_v1_035.xsd "> <dfdl:format encoding="ascii" lengthUnits="characters" /> <dfdl:format selector="selA" encoding="ebcdic" lengthUnits="bits" /> <dfdl:format selector="selB" encoding="ebcdic-custom" lengthUnits="bytes" /> </dfdl:defineFormat> <dfdl:defineFormat name="fmtZX" xmlns:dfdl="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/ DFDL_v1_035.xsd "> <dfdl:format ref="fmtX" lengthUnits="bytes" /> <!-- inherits encoding="ascii" --> <!-- lengthUnit="bytes" explicitly specified -- > overrides lengthUnit="characters" from referenced format --> <dfdl:format ref="fmtX" selector="selA" lengthUnits="bytes" /> <!-- inherits encoding="ebcdic" from matching selector A in the referenced format --> <!-- lengthUnit="bytes" explicitly specified -- > overrides lengthUnit="bits" from matching selector A in the referenced format --> <dfdl:format ref="fmtX" selector="selB" lengthUnits="bytes" /> <!-- inherits encoding="ebcdic-custom" from matching selector B in the referenced format --> <!-- lengthUnit="bytes" explicitly specified -- > overrides lengthUnit="bytes from matching selector B in the referenced format --> </dfdl:defineFormat> <!-- Base defineFormat contains one dfdl:format without selector --> <dfdl:defineFormat name="fmtY" xmlns:dfdl="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/ DFDL_v1_035.xsd "> <dfdl:format encoding="ascii" lengthUnits="characters" /> </dfdl:defineFormat> <dfdl:defineFormat name="fmtZY" xmlns:dfdl="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/ DFDL_v1_035.xsd "> <dfdl:format ref="fmtY" lengthUnits="bytes" /> <!-- inherits encoding="ascii" from default format --> <!-- lengthUnit="bytes" explicitly specified -- > overrides lengthUnit="characters" from default format --> <dfdl:format ref="fmtY" selector="selA" lengthUnits="bytes" /> <!-- inherits encoding="ascii" from default format--> <!-- lengthUnit="bytes" explicitly specified -- > overrides lengthUnit="characters" from default format --> <dfdl:format ref="fmtY" selector="selB" lengthUnits="bytes" /> <!-- inherits encoding="ascii" from default format --> <!-- lengthUnit="bytes" explicitly specified -- > overrides lengthUnit="characters" from default format --> </dfdl:defineFormat> Suman Kalia IBM Toronto Lab WMB Toolkit Architect and Development Lead WebSphere Business Integration Application Connectivity Tools http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/businessintegration/wmb.ht... Tel : 905-413-3923 T/L 969-3923 Fax : 905-413-4850 T/L 969-4850 Internet ID : kalia@ca.ibm.com 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