RE: [dfdl-wg] Telcon tomorrow

9 Mar 2006

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From: Steve Hanson [mailto:smh@uk.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:07 AM
To: Westhead, Martin (Martin)
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Subject: Re: [dfdl-wg] Telcon tomorrow
Hi Martin
Additional agenda item. This is something us IBMers discussed prior to
As it currently stands, the following properties apply to separators and
there may well be more (given there is Encoding there should probably be
byteOrder & BOM properties for Unicode).

separator
separatorEncoding
finalSeparatorCanBeMissing
separatorPosition
separatorPolicyForAbsentElements

Maybe it makes more sense to treat separators like quotes and have
separator schemes that the user can define and re-use?

Regards, Steve

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That seems sensible.

Question: Can you/should you be able to extend sub properties. For
example I introduce a new conversion based on the existing separator
function that adds a tag prefix to each field...I would like to be able
to add (when I introduce this conversion) a new sub-property to
separator called "tagPrefix".

Martin

the
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F2F but I omitted to include it in my foils about properties.
Several properties have a bunch of other sub-properties associated with
them. For example, separator has separatorEncoding and
separatorIgnoreCase;
initiator and terminator likewise have equivalent sub-properties. It
was
suggested that if sub-properties needed to be specified they should
only be
specifiable on a sub-element, as below. This was to reduce the number
of
properties on DFDL elements.
<dfdl:sequence separator="@"  />
or
<dfdl:sequence>
     <dfdl:separator encoding="850"
ignoreCase="true">@</dfdl:separator>
</dfdl:sequence>
Regards, Steve
Steve Hanson
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                                      [dfdl-wg] Telcon tomorrow
07/03/2006 22:03
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