[DFDL-WG] documentFinalTerminatorCanBeMissing
Steve Hanson
smh at uk.ibm.com
Thu Dec 15 10:41:13 EST 2011
I came across a format today which allows fields to be fixed length or
delimited on a per element basis. The delimiter is allowed to vary on a
per element basis. This indicates that the delimiter would be naturally
modelled as a terminator in DFDL, as opposed to a separator. However, the
final terminator in the document must never appear. Not can be missing,
but must be missing. This suggests that
dfdl:documentFinalTerminatorCanBeMissing is not flexible enough, and
instead needs to be a 3 way property - 'yes', 'no', 'always'.
Regards
Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
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