[DFDL-WG] dfdl:calendarLanguage - should allow an expression?

[Mike Beckerle]

This argument would apply to anything that has locale-specific behavior.

are there any other properties that should be revisited this way as well?


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Steve Hanson <smh at uk.ibm.com> wrote:

> DFDL has the design point that the combination of schema & data should
> give the same result regardless of locale and/or machine.  To create a
> schema that does vary across locale or machine requires the user
> deliberately to use expressions for the relevant DFDL properties (encoding,
> decimal separator, etc) and parameterise the schema, using either built-in
> DFDL variables or user-defined variables.
>
> However the dfdl:calendarLanguage property is only defined as a String, I
> think it should also allow an expression as otherwise a schema is tied to a
> particular locale for it's calendar language support.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Hanson
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