[DFDL-WG] passing parameters to DFDL?

Mike Beckerle mbeckerle.dfdl at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 10:35:25 EDT 2013


External variables not yet supported by Daffodil either for anything yet.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Steve Hanson <smh at uk.ibm.com> wrote:

> Yes, it's all described in the DFDL spec. Set external='yes' on
> dfdl:defineVariable.
>
> Not yet supported by IBM DFDL though for user-defined variables, only for
> the 4 pre-defined variables.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Hanson
> Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
> Co-Chair, *OGF DFDL Working Group* <http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/>
> IBM SWG, Hursley, UK*
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>
>
> From:        "Garriss Jr., James P." <jgarriss at mitre.org>
> To:        "dfdl-wg at ogf.org" <dfdl-wg at ogf.org>,
> Date:        29/04/2013 06:23
> Subject:        [DFDL-WG] passing parameters to DFDL?
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>
>
> XSLT has an ability to pass an external value to a parameter within the
> stylesheet, using <xsl:param>.
>
> Does DFDL have a similar capability?  Does dfdl:defineVariable allow this?
>
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Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology |
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