[dfdl-wg] Telcon tomorrow

[Steve Hanson]

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

Steve Hanson
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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

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Hanson [mailto:smh at uk.ibm.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:07 AM
>To: Westhead, Martin (Martin)
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>Hi Martin
>
>Additional agenda item. This is something us IBMers discussed prior to
the
>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
>WebSphere Message Brokers,
>IBM United Kingdom Ltd, Hursley, UK
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