[DFDL-WG] Make dfdl:initiatedContent discriminating
Steve Hanson
smh at uk.ibm.com
Wed Aug 19 05:39:31 CDT 2009
Alan
Is the question really that initiators should always be discriminating?
Regards
Steve Hanson
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Alan Powell/UK/IBM at IBMGB
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[DFDL-WG] Make dfdl:initiatedContent discriminating
Currently dfdl:initiatedContent is used purely as a check that all the
content of a sequence or choice have an initiator specified.
initiatedContent
Booloean
When 'true' indicates that all the children of the choice are initiated.
It is a schema definition error if any children have their dfdl:initiator
property set to the empty string.
When 'false', the children of the choice may have their dfdl:initiator
property set to the empty string.
Annotation: dfdl:sequence, dfdl:choice, dfdl:group
It would help implementations decide more quickly if optional complex
elements are present, and therefore have to save state less often, if
initiatedContent was also made discriminating. I would expect that in most
uses cases the initiator is the discriminator so this change would make
that simpler to specify. The same effect can be achieved by adding a
dfdl:discriminator to each element but that is having to specify the same
intent twice.
If the initiator is not the discriminator then initiatedContent can be set
to 'false'. You lose the schema checking but this is a less common case.
What do you think?
Alan Powell
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