Hi Mike
If I recall, choiceBranchKey was a single
DFDL String Literal because the value to be matched against it is computed
by a DFDL expression (from choiceDispatchKey), which can do things like
lower casing strings or other manipulations. Are you seeing use cases
where multiple keys per branch are making the expression too complex?
Regards
Steve Hanson
IBM Hybrid Integration, Hursley, UK
Architect, IBM
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Co-Chair, OGF
DFDL Working Group
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From:
Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:
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Date:
12/12/2016 19:48
Subject:
[DFDL-WG] choiceBranchKey
- suggest change to List of DFDL String Literals
?
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Our first experience with requiring and implementing choiceBranchKey
in Daffodil and we're already dealing with the fact that many times the
same branch has multiple different keys all of which indicate that it should
be selected.
Right now, dfdl:choiceBranchKey is a DFDL String Literal,
so values like dfdl:choiceBranchKey=" " (that's two spaces)
are legal and will work. If it was to be a whitespace separated value,
then those would have to use DFDL Entities to express the whitespace.
I know I have seen COBOL data where there were multiple
tags that denote the same structure.
I am curious what others experience with choiceBranchKey
is, and how this issue was handled.
I believe from prior emails that IBM has already implemented this in its
DFDL implementation.
There is an erratum specifying that choiceBranchKey comparison
is supposed to be case-sensitive (for performance reasons), but nothing
heretofore about it using DFDL Entities to represent whitespace.
Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology
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