Mike Beckerle created DAFFODIL-2490:
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Summary: Feature to treat string of data as XML
Key: DAFFODIL-2490
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2490
Project: Daffodil
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Back End, Front End
Affects Versions: 3.0.0
Reporter: Mike Beckerle
More than once the need has arisen to convert binary data to XML where the
binary data contains a string of data that is already XML. That XML is not
escapified XML, it's regular XML.
The surrounding binary data needs to be parsed and converted to XML, but the
string of XML needs to simply be slammed into the XML text coming out of
Daffodil.
The inverse needs to happen on unparsing - the XML corresponding to the string
has to be written out as a string (without escaping) and incorporated into the
binary data.
Note that such XML isn't necessarily adhering to DFDL's subset of XML schema.
E.g., it may use attributes, etc.
Nevertheless, the combined XML - the XML you get corresponding to the binary
data part, along with the string of XML embedded in it, the resulting complete
XML document does have an XSD and could be validated (if not by Daffodil, then
by a separate validator)
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