Re: [EXT] Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-16 Thread Beckerle, Mike
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2183 I created this ticket for the unparser bug. From: Costello, Roger L. Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:51:50 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

RE: [EXT] Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-16 Thread Costello, Roger L.
I am using the latest release, 2.4.0 From: Beckerle, Mike Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:47 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: [EXT] Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type What release of Daffodil? 2.4.0 or earlier? From: Costello, Roger

Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-16 Thread Beckerle, Mike
What release of Daffodil? 2.4.0 or earlier? From: Costello, Roger L. Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:43:38 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type Thanks Mike. I made the changes you described. Now parsing

Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-16 Thread Costello, Roger L.
Subject: [EXT] Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type The initiator must be on the person element, not on the interior sequence, since that interior sequence will never even be attempted to parse when the DFDL processor finds the nil representation of the surrounding complex element

Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-16 Thread Beckerle, Mike
ms like the unparser may have a bug having to do with nilled complex elements, or empty string elements. Not sure. From: Costello, Roger L. Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 7:47:53 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on comple

Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-16 Thread Costello, Roger L.
What am I doing wrong, please? /Roger From: Beckerle, Mike Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 11:14 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type The nil representation is preferred to any other representation, which is to say that the parser checks f

Re: Unable to parse an in-band nil on complex type

2019-07-15 Thread Beckerle, Mike
The nil representation is preferred to any other representation, which is to say that the parser checks for the nil representation first before attempting to parse any other representation. So if %ES; is the nil value, and there is no initiator nor terminator in the nil representation (based o